კორნელი სანაძე-KORNELI SANADZE

Professor Korneli Sanadze, People's Artist of Georgia, the Rustaveli State Prize Laureate was born in a small town called Khoni in October 2, 1907, in the family of a railway worker.
He graduated from the technical school of economics in Tiflis (now Tbilisi). But being keen on fine arts, he entered People's Art Studio called after Mose Toidze., in 1922, where he had been studied till 1922. In the same year, after graduation, he entered the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, where he had been studing under the guidance of such outstanding artists as Gigo Gabashvili, E. M. Tatevosian.
Having graduated from the Academy in 1929, Sanadze started his independent creative work. In 1934 Sanadze began to teach painting at the Academy and continues it till now without any interruption. In 1956 and academic degree of professor was conferred on him.
Adherent to the realistic trend in art, K. Sanadze is first of all known as a portrait-painter. He has created a whole gallery of highly artistic, skilfully painted portraits of the representative images of toilers, corn-growers, tea-leaf collectors, shepherds...
The painter likes to depict landscapes of the contemporary and old Georgia revealing the beauty of Nature and architecture of the country.
Talent of the artist is indeed full of variety, that can also be seen in his paintings of still life. He paints flowers, fruits, details of costume, articles of everyday life of the Georigan People.

Being under the influence of different artistic trends in 1920-1930, K. Sanadze created pieces. At the same time one must note an extraordinary richness and diversity of the methods of expression used by the Master in his practice. His methods are free of banality and monotony.

Simultaneously, K. Sanadze is a popular Georgian poet; author of three books of selscted poems.