On the 17th of April “Arvestagir” was at HAYP Pop Up Gallery at the opening of the project “ANKAPital”. Colorful, unfinished space of Megerian Shin, where the unification of the audience of young people, wine and rock music and it let to forget the presence of works of art by making art harmonious and familiar …
Photojournalism in Armenia was founded in 1920s and one of the spearheads of this activity was Nemrut Baghdasaryan. He was one of the first photographers who had placed photos in the newspapers. Heretofore the images in these newspapers were done by hand, however they were not able to have the same impact on a reader …
On the 12th of March 2015 the Cafesjian Center for the Arts presented the first exhibition of 2015 – “Sahak Poghosyan: silence of my grandmother’s eyes”. There was presented one of the largest projects of Sahak Poghosyan, which consists of eleven works. Curator of the exhibition is Nazareth Garoyan. In his project, Sahak Poghosyan announces the theme …
Khachatur Iskandaryan – Honored Artist of Armenia… During his many years of creative life, he participated in numerous exhibitions and competitions, and honored with numerous awards. Iskandaryan, who was born in 1923 in Yerevan, received his first professional education in Yerevan graduating from Industrial Art Technical College, and then in 1951 he graduated from Fine …
The Cover of the Gospel of Sea is a splendid work of art. The Gospel was illustrated by Sarkis Pitsak in 1332. Its cover was prepared after illustrasions, in 1334, by the order of priest Gregory, in Sis. The cover of the Gospel of Sea is made of silver, gilded. The scene of crucifixion is …
Armenian paintress Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (1922-2005), daughter of the famous talented representative of ”Tbilisi School”, artist Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, got her professional education in College of Fine-Arts after Panos Terlemezyan and in the Institute after V. Surikov in Moscow. During her sixty-year creative life Lavinia painted landscapes, Still life, but the most interesting among Lavinia’s works …
Khachatur Yesayan (1909-1977) is one of the famous representatives of the twentieth century Armenian pictorial art, who has his own peculiar painting style. This artist, born in Kars, enriched the genre of landscape with his new painting achievements. He got his professional education in Yerevan College of Fine Arts and Industry. Yesayan was inspired by …
Translated from Armenian Mush Homiliary is one of the main specimens of the centuries-old Armenian miniature. Being the biggest Armenian manuscript, it is stored in the Matenadaran after Mesrop Mashtots, under number 7729. Homiliary contains speeches, sermons, panegyrics, epistles, rules, works of historical content, and also contains general Christian martyrology of Armenian saints systematized by …
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 …
