PICTORIAL OVERTONES OF GEORGIAN POSTMODERNIST MINIATURE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF ROSTOM CHKHEIDZE'S MINIATURES)

Abstract

The article describes the pictorial overtones of georgian postmodernist miniature. The phenomenon of color is not explained in the dictionary of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, only a list of individual colors is presented (white, red, black, violet, blue) [1, p.188]. Viktor Nozadze dedicated a monumental monograph to the color language of «The Knight in the Panther’s Skin». Moses Gogiberidze especially discusses the music of Rustaveli's color in his monograph «Rustaveli, Petritsi, Preludes». Maya Jaliashvili, while analyzing the miniatures of Sandro Tsirekidze (in the words of the critic, the sleep-walker of the word), notes that the music and painting seemed to be combined and revealed verbally [2, p.60]. In the miniatures of Rostom Chkheidze, we find the border between the real and the unreal, which is also found in Georgian modernism. As an example, we cite Marine Revishvili's quote about Basil Melikishvili (whose life and work monograph is edited by Rostom Chkheidze, as mentioned above): Cosmic understanding of events is an important step in Basil Melikishvili's worldview and stylistic searches, to tangibly outline the boundary between the real and the unreal, wrapped in the web of the unknown, the mysterious. The real and the unreal merge and make us feel the eternity of the world, the unity of life and death... A symbolic key should open the door to the bosom of the unknown [3, p.189]. We think that t understand the essence of Rostom Chkheidze's collection of miniatures – «Steps of the Sun», «Sparks of the Moon» and «Paths of the Stars», we may think of the excerpt quoted above as a kind of key. Color is an important additional tone of the miniature. Eter Beriashvili writes about the miniatures of Olesia Tavadze, you read these small stories that are filled with sadness, and once again you 77 believe, together with the c o l o r s (the line is ours – K.K.), that we have gifted a word as an ordeal [4, p.8]. Rostom Chkheidze writes in the preface to the collection of Georgian miniature prose (we will use a conceptual phrase this time once again): A striking example of how philosophical thoughts grow out of sentiments, symbolic-metaphorical speech, painstakingly processed details and figurative images, are Vazha-Pshavela's miniatures (with heartache, he also adds that, as we mentioned above, Vazha's importance as a prose writer is still unexplored)