Nana Meskhidze
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Meskhidze was born on 13 March 1936 in Tbilisi. Her father was Archil Meskhidze who was the conductor of the Georgian folk music choir and his mother was Anna Avlokhashvili, an artist with the Marjanishvili Theater. In 1944 she went to Ilia Chavchavadze Women's High School and in 1951 she started her studies with Iakob Nikoladze at the art school in Tbilisi. In 1957 she studied at the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts.[citation needed]
In 1963 Meskhidze left and began participating in exhibitions where the main theme of her works are Сhildren and Motherhood. In 1965 she became a member of USSR Union of Artists and in 1977 she was an honoured artist of the Georgian republic.[citation needed] Meskhidze was one of the "Five Georgian Artists" who created an exhibition in Moscow in 1977. The other artists were Radish Tordia, Givi Narmania, Zurab Razmadze and Bezhan Shvelidze.[2]
Meskhidze has paintings in museums of the Georgia and Russian Federation. Meskhidze died on August 31, 1997, in Tbilisi.[citation needed]
Works
- "Brother and Sister" (1963)
- "My Father" (1965)
- "Play" (1965)
- "Four of Them" (1966)
- "Girls" (1967)
- "Mothers" (1968)
- "Birth" (1969)
- "Day of Victory" (1970)
- "Children at the Beach" (1971)
- "Tennis Player Girls" (1971)
- "Self Portrait with Children" (1973)
- "In Museum" (1975)
- "In the Field (Idyll)" (1975)