Biography and information
Honored. deyat. the claim in the Goods. SSR (1950). Member. Communist. party from 1955. In 1930 he graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of arts in the class of painting (class of Professor E. E. Lansere). While still a student, from 1926 worked at T-re im. Rustaveli.
He has designed productions: "Wrap", Samsonidze (1932), "Autumn nobility" by D. Kldiashvili (1936), "Alcazar" Mdivani (1937), "Generation of heroes" S. Kldiashvili (1937), "Sunken rocks", Mosashvili (1949; State. St. USSR, 1951), "the Spanish priest" Fletcher (1954), "Tariel Golua" Kiacheli (1955), "This love" Kohout (1959), "Irkutsk story" Arbuzov (1950), "Latimore ", Khukhashvili (1961)," the miracle worker" by Gibson (1963), "Before dinner" Rozova (1963), etc.
T were also made in different years shows the t-RAH to them. Marjanishvili, Batumi, Kutaisi, T-re im. Griboyedov, Moscow. t-re drama. Pushkin, Kiev them. L. Ukrainka and others Work So characterizes the sharpness and conciseness hood. form, expression, beauty, fine sense of the genre, ritmic. clarity and relief.
Member of the Union of artists of the USSR. People's artist of the Georgian SSR, laureate of the State prize.
Biography of Dmitry Matveyevich Tavadze started very early and almost immediately came to the artist's success. In 20 years of independent design show in one of the best theaters in the country, the theater. Rustaveli — this could not everyone. Tavadze coped, his scenography of the play "the Hoop" Samsonidze immediately received widespread acclaim. But this was no accident, the goodwill of fate, the artist has earned the recognition of serious, intense work. With 15 years began his life in the theater, where he first was a student in the workshop scenery, then as an assistant Director. The years of apprenticeship allowed the future artist to get a good practical training, to master the technical, production side of creating scenery. In 1926, Dimitri Tavadze comes to study in the painting Department of the Tbilisi Academy of arts, but simultaneously continues to work in the theater. Since 1930 he holds the position of artist of the theater. Rustaveli, where he is now, is now the main artist (Tavadze main artist of the theater since 1945).
Georgian scenography holds a special place in Soviet art. At all stages of its development were talented, original artists that shaped a shared national style of Georgian theatrical paintings, which have the characteristics of glorification, emboss, imaginative solutions, conciseness and passion for symbolism.
Thirties, when I began my professional work D. Tavadze, were years of great progress of the Georgian theatre, first and foremost, the main theatre of the Republic theatre. S. Rustaveli. In these years there have been some brilliant performances included in the history of modern theatre. In the tradition of the Rustaveli theatre is staging performances of large-scale, epic, solved in a heroic and romantic way. The young artist took seriously the traditions of this scene, it explores, seeks to understand the distinctive artistic style of the theater. While Dimitri Tavadze remains extremely original artist, with their individual style. In General, his works are characterized by conciseness, clarity of forms, a truly British girl. The variety of expressive means makes all his performances, always with a unique atmosphere, without which the performance would not take place as an artistic phenomenon.
The second, equally important problem of the set designer is creating a plastic environment in which to unfold the action of the play. Tavadze know how to organize environments that enable children to play creatively Express themselves, and the Director to create interesting, varied staging. Among the performances designed by the artist — and the heroic drama, and Comedy, and historical-revolutionary performances, and performances on the moral and ethical themes. And, each of them is always present genre clear certainty emanating from the nature of the play. Only Dimitri Tavadze has designed more than 130 productions.
For the artistic solution of the play "Sinking stones" I. Mosashvili (directed by V. Kiknadze) in 1951, the artist was awarded the title of laureate of State prize of the USSR. This is a play about the plight of the Georgian people, forced to live in exile. Turkish barbarians want to destroy the monuments of national architecture around this developing conflict of the play. Since the architecture in this piece is like a character, it makes the artist the main element in the design of the show. The entire scene is a picture of the dilapidated Cathedral, with a rickety cross in the middle, with sprouted between the stones with grass. This is a place that has become a symbol of the Motherland for the trapped abroad Georgians. And it is the symbolic value of architecture conveyed in their decorations Tavadze.
Dmitry Matveyevich Tavadze not been invited to make performances in other republics of our country. So, in the Azerbaijan drama theater. Azizbekov they feature performance of "don't worry, mom!" N. Dumbadze. In Kirovabad the theatre Tavadze he designed the staging of Shakespeare's "Othello". In Dagestan, in Makhachkala theater — "mountain girl" by R. Gamzatov.
It is separately necessary to tell about the decision Tavadze comedic performances. One of the best works of the artist —"a Spanish priest" of John. Fletcher. Here everything is built according to very different principles in comparison with the above-mentioned performances. Brighter, more fun colors (blue sky, white walls, red roofs, colorful costumes of the performers), smaller, more details of scenery, complicated, with many inputs and outputs architecture, as would be prejudicial to the complexity of countless situations in which are actors. Wit, beauty of execution of different costumes made by the artist.
And, of course, impossible not to at least list the Shakespearean productions of the artist, to each of which he found the precise attitude, precise emotional decision. It delivered in the theater. Rustaveli dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the English playwright's "a Midsummer night's Dream" and "twelfth night" at Tbilisi youth Theatre, and "Othello" in Kirovabad theatre, and "Julius Caesar", "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth" and "King Lear".
Behind Tavadze long theatrical biography of the artist, but he continues to work in the theater, and in front of the audience — meet new work.
E. ROMANENKO
Literature:
D. Tavadze. Catalogue of the exhibition. Tbilisi, 1964
