Caucasus, Georgia, Tbilisi: Art Market

Continued from “Caucasus, Georgia: Holy Mtskheta”

http://natalia-levis-fox.blogspot.com/2014/03/caucasus-georgia-holy-mtskheta.html

The best way to understand the spirit of every civilization is to visit their street art markets. The less wealthy (i.e. ‘civilized’ or ‘standardized’) is the country, the richer is art.

Most artists live in poverty. But they never stop creating, irrelevant of revolutions or other extreme state affairs. Georgian artists are not an exclusion!

In the center of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia there is an art fair. You can find plenty of things. Below are artworks that I liked most.

Art-shopping enriches your life, taste and adds delight to your everyday life.

This is what I got in Tbilisi, among other things.

Plates for every day use

This is how these nice and elegant plates add charm to tasty food.

Salt and stewed onions for fried fish

Frozen cherries from my garden

add unforgettable taste to meat pie I bake every week-end.

You can also visit your own street art market to enjoy the atmosphere of beauty and abundance. By buying artworks, you contribute to artists’ wellness! When you use artworks in everyday life with pleasure, or admire pictures or other art objects, you prolong artists’ life and creation potential.

Tomorrow we shall walk around evening Tbilisi and listen to fantastic Georgian siningng.

Love

Natalia Levis-Fox

www.natalialevisfox.com

Caucasus, Georgia: Holy Mtskheta

Yesterday we visited Jvary with you. It is ancient monastery of Cross, standing on top of hill.

http://natalia-levis-fox.blogspot.com/2014/03/caucasus-georgia-jvary-monastery.html

This is how it looks in summer.

Mtskheta is an ancient capital of Georgia.

At the period of IV century when Christianity was accepted, Georgia had the name of Iveria.

Mtskheta is spiritual heart of Georgia.

Listen to 3 beautiful chorals by Georian Monks

http://www.levisfoxartgallery.com/music.html

Around the cathedral there is a tourist complex: nice and ‘very Georgian’.

Walking around it, you feel clean from within.

This is how holy places manifest themselves, even if you are not religious, like me

Typical Georgian houses

There is a cult of wine in Georgia since ancient times

Homemade wine is kept deep inside the ground in huge jugs called ‘qweri’

Wine shop in Mtzheta

Some of the wine bottles are examples of 

ceramic art.

It is a real pleasure to travel with friends belonging to holy places

To morrow we shall make art shopping in Tbilisi, Georgian capital

Love

Natalia Levis-Fox

www.natalialevisfox.com

Caucasus, Georgia: Jvary Monastery

Continued from:

http://natalia-levis-fox.blogspot.com/2013/12/new-year-in-georgia-caucasus.html

In December-January I travelled in Georgia, South Caucasus. It was my first winter visit to this beautiful country.

Caucasian mountains in Georgia below bright blue skies

The air of Georgia is crystal, absolute healthy and charming.

No wonder, Georgian people are hearted, charming and full of sense of humor.

Ceramic plate “Spirit of Tbilisi”, the capital of Georgia (my property)

The Georgian Orthodox Jvari Monastery (Monastery of the Cross) at Mtskheta.

You can enjoy Georgian spiritual singing by monks at

  http://www.levisfoxartgallery.com/music.html 

It was built in an early tetraconch style (a four-apsed domed structure) on the VII century.

St. Nino icon in Jvary

Below the monastery you see how two Georgian emerald-green rivers Aragva and Cura are jointing in one flow.

Far at the distance, there is an ancient Georgian capital – Mtskheta.

We shall see it tomorrow,

Love

Natalia Levis-Fox

www.natalialevisfox.com

Social Humor: Who Is Right?

You never know who is right,

but it is always clear who is chief…

Natalia Levis-Fox

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