Gennady (also Gennadii) Ivanovich Pasko (born 26 October 1940, Sukhumi) is a Russian

impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

painter.

Education

Pasko finished Batumi art school in 1959. He graduated from the faculty of applied art (decorative arts) of the

Moscow Textile Institute Moscow State Textile Institute (formerly A. N. Kosygin Moscow State Textile University) was formed in 1919. It is one of the oldest and institutes for higher studies in textiles in Russia. History In 1981, the institute was named in honor of Sov ...

in 1965.

Recognition

Pasko is the

people's artist of Russia People's Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: Народный артист Российской Федерации, ''Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an h ...

for 1995. He was awarded a Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts in 2001.

References

20th-century Russian painters Russian male painters 21st-century Russian painters Russian Impressionist painters 1940 births Living people People from Sukhumi People's Artists of Russia Soviet Impressionist painters 20th-century Russian male artists 21st-century Russian male artists {{Russia-painter-stub