100 arts
Artist:
Krikor Momdjian
Title:
Komidas, 1986
Location:
Private Collection
Artist: Krikor Momdjian
Title: Komidas, 1986
Location: Private Collection
Krikor Momdjian: "This work is one of the series works I did as homage to Komidas. The composer who was also priest, was interested in the authenticity of the Armenian music. He went into Armenian villages to listen and put into music notes that he heard, as an ethno-musicologist avant la lettre. He became famous in Europe because of his concerts with his big choir. He was captured in Constantinople on 24th of April like the other Armenian intelligentsia by the Ottoman Empire. His manuscripts/music notations were destroyed. He was mistreated but saved by diplomats and was sent to Paris. Komidas lost his senses as consequence put in a psychiatric home. The last 20 years of his life he did not talk to anyone, except to his sister. I wanted to honor him inspiring me with his divine music. In my childhood listening to his music intensely in the cathedral of the Armenian cloister - seminary of Jerusalem, where I was a seminarian for three years. He is still my source of inspiration, bringing me to the source of the Armenian soul. His music evokes my admiration for the beauty of the nature and I feel the Divine Light reflected through his music and songs."
Artist:
Seyran Khatlamajyan
Title:
April, 1987
Location:
Modern Art Museum of Yerevan
Artist: Seyran Khatlamajyan
Title: April, 1987
Location: Modern Art Museum of Yerevan
Seyran Khatlamajyan, who is one of the founders of the Armenian abstract art, recreated the month April in his powerful sense of color. (On April 24th of 1915 the arrest of the hundreds of Armenian intelligentsia, the extermination of the national elite, massacre of the Armenian nation started mainly from Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire).
Artist:
Souren Safaryan
Title:
Beyond Ararat, 1988
Location:
Artist's Family Collection
Artist: Souren Safaryan
Title: Beyond Ararat, 1988
Location: Artist's Family Collection
Suren Safaryan touches upon the history destiny of the Armenian nation. This canvas is one of those works that compiles the elements of dynamic forms and fargeskala elements. The canvas is based on the artist’s reflections on the destiny of the Armenian nation and its future.
Artist:
Seeroon Yeretzian
Title:
Blooming, 1988
Location:
Private Collection
Artist: Seeroon Yeretzian
Title: Blooming, 1988
Location: Private Collection
Seeroon Yeretzian: "This canvas represents the generation(s) after the Genocide. The Genocide separated our heads (our identity) from our bodies (our homeland)."



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