NIKO PIROSMANI

  Niko Pirosmani (Nikoloz Pirosmani), a famous Georgian a famous Georgian artist, is a unique phenomenon in twentieth-century art. He was a self-taught artist whose outstanding gift was his ability to extract the essential from any subject. He was born in the village of Mirzaani Est Georgian region of Kakheti in 1862. Soon after his birth pirosmani,s father  was ruined and the family moved to the faraway place of Shulaveri. His father hired there as a wine-grower  to a rich landowner. After the death of his father the boy was taken in by his father,s former masters who took him in the mid-1870s to Tiflis as Tbilisi was then called. And this beautiful fantastic city became a second home for Niko Pirosmani.
  He started an independent life at the age of 26. He started a workshop and painted signboards together with his companion. But soon bankruptcy came as the logical end. After this he undertook several new business. In short, at the turn of the century  Georgia lost and unlucky "businessman" but acquired a genuine painter.
  This new chapter in Pirosmani,s life was not at all eventful  outwardly besides a few visits back home to Mirzaani and several trips to provincial cities and towns to earn a few coppers. He became a wandering artist, but this was the kind of  life wanted to  lead. His home was the city itself. The homeless  painter lived for the most part wherever he painted. At times he rented  "lodgins" as a rule a caller or a shed, But he never stayed in any place for long.
  The Pirosmani mirrored  in his works is his homeland   Georgia. He created paintings of lasting value by painting signs, portaits, landscapes and genre scenes in the taverns of Tbilisi based on town and village life and the bohemian ways of  Tbilisi.
   Niko Pirosmani created works of striking and unique simplicity. He painted on tin plate or inn walls, on bits of black oil cloth; painted everything that struck his imagination. The whole world admires his celebrated masterpieces: " childless millionaire and a poor Women  wih the  Children," "Three Princes Carousing on the Grass," "The jackass Bridge," "The janitor," "Margot the Actress," etc. His remarkable and tragic life ended in poverty and obscurity. Inn the 1930s a group of art enthusiasts managed to unearth some of his works a discovery that delighted the world.