Niko Pirosmani Nature_Gift_Guide crime and survival have always

crime and survival have always gone hand in hand

Although we do not know the exact form this world will take

A stunning debut about “a love affair that turns inferno” (People)

they soon develop a grudging respect for one another that blossoms into romance when each comes to appreciate the tender feelings that course beneath the veneer of their propriety and reserve

survival and sacrifice

Niko Pirosmani Nature_Gift_Guide crime and survival have alwaysRarely seen Pirosmani masterpieces from the Georgian National Museum, accompanying the Fondation Beyeler's major exhibition The art of the legendary Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani (1862 1918) spoke to all, from people otherwise uninterested in art to avant garde artists and writers. Painted around the turn of the century in a flourishing Tbilisi, his portraits, animal paintings, landscapes and scenes from everyday life draw on medieval iconography