 | David KAKABADZE 1889 — 1952Давід КАКАБАДЗЕ • Давид КАКАБАДЗЕDavid Kakabadze is an artist, theoretician and art historian. The Georgian artist David Kakabadze was born in 1889 in the village Kukhi, Kutaisi Province. In 1901 he entered the Kutaisi Gimnasium and was seriously interested in painting. In 1908 he started to learn painting with the painter Paevski. He showed strong interest in the Georigan national traditions. His other concern was the assimilation of the latest art trends then current in Western Europe. Kakabadze`s activities encompassed many kinds and genres of visual art: portraiture, still-life and landscape art, miniatures, murals, theatre and cinema settings. His work may be divided into several periods: those of St. Petersburg (1909-18), Tbilisi (1918-19), Paris (1919-27), and again Tbilisi (1927-52). While in Paris Kakabadze studied Byzantium history and art. In this period he combined modern style with avant-garde experiments, much along the same lines as of Picasso, Dufy and Derain. He took part in major Parisian exhibitions and in displays of European art in the USA. |
