Dear reader, the opening of a website I want to start with an interesting and instructive conversation with Ruben Arutchyan. The artist, who has a very important and interesting way that enriched the Armenian art and will enrich it. Our generation needs to listen to the opinions of these people, talk to them, exchange views …
On March 31 in Cafesjian Center for the Arts was opened an interactive educational center with a rich and original library. The library includes the personal collection of Gerard Cafesjian and the books donated to the Arts Center. For those people who are interested in art, especially contemporary culture and who today can’t find literature …
Joseph Orbely was born in March 8, 1887 in Kutaisi. A year later, his family moved to Tbilisi, where in a multinational environment of Armenians, Russians, Georgians, Azerbaijans he met with different languages. Joseph Orbely, who has studied Armenian (and not only Armenian) culture, art and history, was from family with aristocratic origin. Orbely family …
Lydia Durnovo was born in 1885 in Smolensk. In 1902 she graduated from the local college, where she studied drawing. In 1904 Durnovo moved to St. Petersburg, where she entered the workshop of A.V.Makovsky, but here she studies only a year. Russian-Japanese war has begun, and she as a sister of mercy leaving for the front. …
