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. …
On the 20th of March, at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA) opened an exhibition named “Image of womаn in Iranian contemporary art.” Curator of the exhibition was Shake A. Petrosyan. The image of women in the east, always had a problem in it, more than anywhere else, and it was always different …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
