The members of International Lyceum Club Georgia traveled to Signaghi (Eastern Georgia) to visit the exhibition “Freedom-Inspired Art” of Non-conformist Georgian Artists: Avto Varazi, Vakhtang Davitashvili, Otar Chkhartishvili, Temo Japaridze, Amir Kakabadze and Avto Meskhi at the National Museum of Sighnaghi. In the field of art, the statement of the term – Soviet nonconformist art is connected to Norton Dodge, American economist, Doctor of Philosophy of Harvard University. He is famous as one of the first collectors of Soviet unofficial art. Norton Dodge bought paintings of the artists in the 1960s and smuggled them out of the Soviet Union. In fact, he introduced to the West the art of so-called Soviet underground, of which up to 20,000artworks are preserved in his collection. Among them are the works of Georgian non-conformist artists.

