Pen 15 Qartulad - Work

ინგლისური Pen15-ის იდეაა: სიტყვა + ციფრი = ახალი უხამსი სიტყვა. ქართულში შეგვიძლია ვცადოთ:

ქართული ანბანი არ ერწყმის რიცხვებს ისე, როგორც ლათინური. ამიტომ ეს მეთოდი ქართულში არ მუშაობს. pen 15 qartulad work

On the visual side, Pen 15 artists, led by Lado Gudiashvili and Kirile Zdanevich, developed a style that might be termed “urban primitivism.” Rejecting both the academic realism of the Tbilisi Art School and the decorative folklorism of earlier Georgian painters, they drew inspiration from medieval Georgian frescoes, Svanetian tower carvings, and Tbilisi’s own subterranean life—its taverns, bathhouses, and underworld characters. Pen 15 artists

Gudiashvili’s paintings from the Pen 15 period (e.g., “Night at the Ortachala Garden”, 1920) feature elongated, almost puppet-like figures with hollow eyes and contorted limbs, set against dreamlike cityscapes. The color palette is deliberately harsh: acidic yellows, deep ochres, and bruised purples. Zdanevich’s works go further into the grotesque, depicting hybrid creatures—half-human, half-machine—that seem to prophesy the dehumanization of the coming Soviet era. Svanetian tower carvings

The group also produced lithographic posters and illustrated their own poetry collections, using cheap paper and bold, crude lines as a deliberate affront to the polished book arts of the Georgian Golden Age. These artifacts were sold in the Tbilisi bazaar alongside icons and kitchenware, embodying their anti-elitist ethos.

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