Zhirayn Oragyan is enlisted among the artists who survived the Genocide. The canvases of the Armenian artist surviving the Genocide directly and indirectly express the memories of his childhood full of sadness, loneliness, grief, anguish and cherished dreams of seeing the motherland again. The master of expressionism Oragyan’s Yeghern(Genocide) canvas is the carrier of the expressive reflection of the Armenian mourning. An Italian art critic mentioned Oragyan as "Mysterious man, an artist of unusual nature".

Shahen Khachatryan (Art critic): "The sensitive lines of Jansem are flowing in the canvases like blood vessels and harmonizing the subtle, pale color palette, they create hyperrealistic, visual and music atmosphere. Jansem practices this principle of building the image. Exactly 50 years after the Genocide inspired "Funeral of my grandfather" painting, the master creates the "Genocide" series revealing the curtain of the history truth.