Painting Workshop in Armenia
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Outdoor Painting Workshop in Armenia.
Armenia is one of the oldest countries in the world, rich in both natural beauty and man-made monuments of great historic significance.
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Viva Yerevan
Welcome to Yerevan. The capital city of Armenia, Yerevan, is becoming more and more beautiful and attractive, friendly, stable, tolerant and safe. This thriving capital has evolved spectacularly. Its history relates to the Erebuni City founded by the king of Urartu Argishti I in 782 B.C. Today, the artifact of those ancient times is the historical-archeological museum built near the ruins of Erebuni fortress.
Yerevan is getting younger continuously and attracts the public with her 20th century pink features, her Republic Square, Opera House, and other architectural structures.
The National Art Gallery presents the works of Auguste Rodin, Peter Paul Rubens, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, the famous Armenian painters Hovhannes Ayvazovski, Martiros Saryan, and others.
Now Yerevan is an attractive modern city, rich in beautiful monuments and sights of interest, among which Gafesjian Art Center is distinguished; it is friendly called Cascade by the locals – a favorite place not only for the residents of Yerevan but also for its guests as well. Cascade is interesting for its concert and various exhibition halls, open-air gallery alleys, where together with well-known sculpture of Alexsander Tamanian, founder of Armenian new architecture, some of Fernando Botero’s and others sculptures are exhibited.
You are invited to visit restaurants, wineries, Yerevan ARARAT Brandy Factory, clubs, pubs and entertainment sites which night life in Yerevan offers. As well one can enjoy cozy shopping.
Be prepared to be surprised and impressed in Yerevan!
Armenian painters' vernissage in Saryan Park, Yerevan
A beautiful green park during the weekdays, Saryan Park transforms into an outdoor exhibition of paintings on the weekends, with artists often acting as salespeople of their original creations. The Painters' Vernissage is a cornerstone in the mosaic of the cultural life of Yerevan. Yerevan's Vernissage was established in the 1980s by Armenian artists who wanted to bring fruits of their labor directly to the people. Originally located the square in front of the Union of Armenian Artists, the Vernissage moved to the park around the Sarian Monument across from the Opera Square, an implicit tribute to the legendary painter. On week-ends, the lawns in the park disappear under rows of paintings, while people wander the corridors between them, appreciating and purchasing the high-quality artistic creations.
Opening of the ARF Museum in Yerevan, Armenia
The ARF Museum was opened to the public in Yerevan, Armenia with an official ceremony held on July 7, 2007
50 seconds with great armenian ! Minas Avetisyan !
greate Austere and majestic is the beauty of Armenia. Bathed in light and color, pampered and caressed by the sun beneath whose strong rays the whole earth comes to life, this land has given the world not a few talented painters.
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Minas Avetisian was born on the 20th of July 1928, in a little Armenian village-Djadjur. Leningrad, with its Academy of Fine Arts and its Hermitage, played a significant role in Avetisian's becoming an artist. Avetisian always remembers with gratitude his teachers, Johannson, Zaitsev and Khudiakov: they never hindered the natural expression of his own artistic individuality.
Both in his student years and after graduating from the Academy, Avetisian traveled widely around Armenia, eagerly seeking out historical monuments; he studied the Armenian miniature and the works of the greatest Armenian artists, above all, Saryan's.
Avetisian's real emergence as an artist was at the Exhibition of Five in Yerevan (1962), where he revealed himself as a mature painter with a bright individuality. Numerous specialists and visitors to the exhibition thought highly of his work. In the presence of a large group of visitors and representatives of the press, the French artist Jean Lurcat exclaimed: This artist rivals France's best painters.
Avetisian follows the national traditions in painting, yet he never resorts to slavish imitation or stylization. But he shows great freedom and originality in his use of means of expression found in the work of ancient miniaturists: bright sonorous colors, coordination of pictorial tension throughout the entire surface of the canvas, rhythmic arrangement of lines, the static quality of representation, and the absence of perspective. And this is quite natural: like any artist of great talent, Avetisian has achieved an understanding of reality not so much through the study of the work of other masters, as through his own perception and interpretation of life.
Colours of the Soul - Minas Avetisyan (ArmenianSoul)
Colours of the Soul - Minas Avetisyan : Գույներն եւ հոգու մասին - Մինաս Ավետիսյան : Цвета Души - Минас Аветисян
Avetisyan Minas Karapeti is an Armenian painter, graphic artist, theatrical artist, an Armenian Honoured artist born in July 20, 1928 in the village of Jajur, Armenia.
Minas studied at Terlemezyan College of Fine Arts in Yerevan (1947–1952), Yerevan Fine Arts and Theater Institute (1952–1954), Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Institution Ilya Repin by name in Leningrad (1955–1959), where his main teacher was Boris Ioganson. From 1960 on Minas lived in Yerevan.
His first arts gallery took place in 1960, however, he got to be famous and known in 1962 after “Exhibition of Five” held in Yerevan. Numerous specialists and visitors to the exhibition appreciated greatly the well-established artist of bright individuality and his works.
Avetisyan’s works characterized by seemingly wild brush work and strident colors gave new life to fauvism principles. You may as well easily trace some South Caucasus Middle Eve Arts traditions in his works. His works having a peculiar color saturation juxtaposed with an epic drama of bold shapes, nature paintings, self-portraits, symbolic countryside motives were interpreted at official exhibitions as a breakthrough to the freedom of esthetical self-expression. By this Avetisian got closer to the contemporary Russian rough style, even though in general he longed more to the French modern and early avant-garde style of early 20th.
Minas was also a success as a theatrical artist (theatre set design of Khachaturian's Gayane ballet at Opera and Ballet Theatre by Spendiarov Name, 1974) and as a monumental painter (factory interior wall-paintings in Leninakan- Gyumri, 1970-1974).
Minas travelled a lot around Armenia, searching for historical monuments, studying Armenian miniature works and works of the greatest Armenian artists, of Martiros Saryan in the first place. Saryan was Minas’s spiritual father. The young artist was a genuine successor of the great artist’s work and a symbol of a new development of national painting.
Following national traditions in painting, using means of expression found in ancient miniatures and considering the experience of famous artists, Minas, nevertheless, was never a blind copier. In his works he reflected the reality seen through his life perception and interpretation.
Unfortunately, many of his paintings were burned down in fire in 1972. In January 1 during the night time, while Avetisyan was in Jajur with his family, his studio in Yerevan was burned along with most of his best canvases.
Three years later, in 1975 Minas Avetisian died under the wheels of the car, which stopped off at the sidewalk. And the bad luck seemed to pursue him even after his death when part of his wall-paintings were destroyed during the earthquake in Leninakan (Gyumri) and razed to the ground Minas Avetisian’s museum in his native Jajur village.
In Armenia the name of Minas Avetisian is normally pronounced with affection. He committed his whole life (so tragically short) to Fine Arts. During 1960-1975 Minas managed to create over 500 canvases, big and small, and nearly the same amount of drawings, 20 big fresco’s and design projects for dozens of theatrical performances.
His works are introduced at Avetisian’s Home-Museum in Yerevan, Modern Arts Museum in Yerevan, Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow, as well as at numerous private collections in Armenia, Russia and other countries.
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Հյուրերը նաև դիտել են ճապոնական փայտա-փորագրությունների ցուցադրությունը և պարգևներ հանձնել «Միասին պաշտպանենք մոլորակը» միջազգային նկարչական մրցույթի հաղթողներին:
What Aivazovsky painting was sold at Christie’s auction. UCMC, 13.06.16
What Aivazovsky painting was sold at Christie’s auction. Protection of cultural heritage in the occupied territories”
Vasyl Rozhko, head of museum and cultural values department at the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
Timur Bobrovskiy, member at the Ukrainian Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
Leonid Maruschak, curator of Ukraine Crisis Media Center art initiative