Archive for 03.2015
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The Pileless Carpets in Armenian Carpet Weaving Culture
Weaving is one of the major achievements of mankind. In the ancient world, especially in those parts of Asia where people were engaged in animal husbandry (particularly of sheeps), the textile industry and weaving and carpet making were widely developed. Pileless carpet weaving is centuries old, the same as carpet weaving, but it has a longer history.The raw materials for carpet were sheepand camel wool, soft goat hair, cotton and silk. In Vaspurakan, for example, people used the hair of goat called “chur,” as well as wool,hemp, flax, cotton, and silk thread. People used …
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Khachatur Yesayan gallery
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Eduard Isabekyan’s art.
Isabekyan is one of the greatest representatives of Armenian fine art of the second half of 20th century. He has a considerable investment and merit in Armenian painting and graphic art. The eminent painter was born on 8th of November 1914 in Igdir, then he moved to Yerevan. He gained a professional education at the …
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An Essay On The Issue of Seljuk Art
The Seljuk Turks originated from the Qynyk branch of the Oghuz Turks and are named under their ruler Seljuk. According to the 11th-century famous scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari, the borders of today’s Afghanistan still in the 7th century were inhabited with 24 Oghuz tribes. During the time these tribes, being exposed to different religious streams, in the timeframe 920 – 960, …
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Video ” The Artist – Ashot Hovhannisyan” video
In the short video clip represented below the artist’s friends Henrik Igityan, HakobHakobyan, Rafael Papyan, Ruben Angaladyan, ParavonMirzoyan and ShahenKhachatryan remember AshotHovhannisyan and his creative activity.
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Ashot Hovhannisyan. The revolutionist Deghdz Ashot
Deghdz’s friends remember him with special warmth,he has remained perpetually on the pages of Armenian art history as an artist with the extremely vivid and expressive sense of color. Ashot Hovhannsiyan’s(1929-1997) best canvases are executed by memory and are remote from the original. His thematic, landscape works are often abstracted, full of conditional forms which …
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Abstract photography: Gabriel Panosyan
On the 3th of March “Arvestagir” was at the Museum of History of Yerevan on the opening of the exhibition of an armenian photographer from Levan, Gabriel Panosyan called “Abstract photography”. Art historians Shaen Khachatryan, Saro Galents and Marina Stepanian had speeches on the exhibition. The RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan alsow was at the …