니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

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니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

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니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

 

니코 피로스마니(Niko Pirosmani), 조오지아, 원초주의 화가, 1862-1918

죽고 난 후에서야 화폐 속 인물이 될만큼 알려진 조지아의 국민화가 '피로스마니'는, 젊은 시절 간판 그리며 공부했습니다. 물감 살 돈도 없어 간판 그리고 남은 페인트로 칠하다보니 검은 배경에 단색의 그림이 많습니다. 철도검표원과 선술집을 운영하며 그림을 그리던 45살의 노총각은 프랑스에서 온 22살의 3류 여배우 '마가리타'와 사랑에 빠집니다.

 

그는 전재산을 팔아 수많은 장미를 사다 바쳤지만 그녀는 떠나버리고, 혼자 남은 화가는 그림을 그리다 쓸쓸히 생을 마칩니다. 사후 전시회 때 나타나서 그림 속 인물이 자신이라고 고백했다고 하네요. 가난한 화가의 이루지 못한 사랑이야기는, 훗날 라트비아의 민요에 얹혀져 "백만송이 장미"라는 노래가 되었답니다.

 

                                                                                                        About Him

 

Niko Pirosmani, a Georgian primitivist painter, orphaned at a young age, was characterized by the naïve, childlike simplicity of his subject matter and technique. He taught himself to paint as a child, creating his own oil for painting, and his specialty was painting directly onto black oil cloth. He was always poor, but willing to work, and as such he held many jobs throughout his life, including a herdsman and a railroad conductor. He also created signboards, co-founded a dairy farm, and held odd-jobs like house painting or white-washing buildings. Because of his destitute situation, he had little relationship with the profession of being an artist. As an example, he joined the Society of Georgian Painter, but developed a strained relationship with the society after one of the other artists drew an offensive caricature of him.

 

Many of his works were either of historical figures or of everyday people living their everyday lives. In the 1910’s he did receive some recognition, when a famous Russian poet and his brother presented his works to the Moscow newspaper, which published four of his works. Although he did receive some recognition, he died of malnutrition and liver failure, destitute and without artistic recognition.

 

Posthumously, after WWI, his reputation grew, when his naïve style became popular in the art circles of Paris, and the first book of his work was published in 1926. A legend, which also helped cement his reputation, was that he had a romantic encounter with a French actress with whom he fell deeply in love. He thus filled the square outside of her hotel window with flowers, allegedly making himself bankrupt. His works have since been in exhibitions all around the world, and the Republic of Georgia recently put out a currency with Pirosmani’s paintings on them.

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