Solo Show of Paintings by Natella Toidze at the Russian Academy of Arts

The exhibition at the Russian Academy of Arts features a retrospective of paintings produced by the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Natella Toidze in the 1970s-2010. She is a painter of an original creative style and high pictorial culture. Natella Toidze was born in Moscow in a family of noted artists.

In 1972 Natella Toidze graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art College Named In Memory of 1905 where she majored in theatrical and decorative art. Soon after the graduation she became a frequent exhibitor in Moscow and All-Russian art shows.

Her early landscapes of Georgia and middle regions of Russia are full of a special reverential sensitivity to the life of nature and reveal the artist’s gift for portrayal of the play of light. Subsequently, her works acquired intense decorative features bringing associations with the Russian art of the early 20th century and painting of the Jack of Diamonds group. Through her distinguished and associative images enigmatically appearing in a vibrant element of color (diptych “Flora and Fauna”) Natella Toidze depicts the mystery of processes in nature. In many of her paintings fragments of real natural environment turn into colorful combinations creating the general mood, the motif or atmosphere of an artwork. (“After the Rain”, “Before the Snowfall”, The Beginning of Summer”).

Natella Toidze is a painter by nature, the main thing for her is not so much a narrative subject, but the means of its interpretation in colors. She sees an aesthetic source in the diversity of the world. Of equal interest to her is the nature of the Caucasus and the Russian North, Moscow courtyards and landscapes of the Russian countryside. All that she paints is full of her personal feeling comprising both the memory of generations and realities of these days.

The art of Natella Toidze, which is closely connected with the Moscow school of painting embodies her idea of the lyric essence of life, freedom of self expression and spontaneity of her pictorial language.

In 2004 Natella Toidze was awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. Her works are in museum and private collections in Russia and other countries.




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