Armen Vartanyan biography
Vartanyan Armen Vagarshakovich was born on April 20, education in the gg. Pushkin G. in the city in these years participated in republican and all -Union exhibitions of folk art and received several awards. He began to draw at 4 years old. Drawing from nature has become a favorite occupation of Armen. He begins to write with watercolors. He painted the first paintings when he was 11 years old.
In gg. He did not get to the front - he was recognized as worthless for health reasons. In these years, professor Martiros Saryan, Vagram Gaifjyan and others were taught here. Creativity in the GG. In the same years, he studied fresco and mosaic painting as an assistant Beel Witz and Pavel Dmitrievich Korin. He worked on the frescoes “Stalingrad epic”, “fascism-tuner of peoples”, studying at the Moscow Art Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts.
The formation of his creative views was largely facilitated by friendship with Gevorg Emin, S. In the year, Armen Vartanyan was acquainted with the famous Soviet artist Boris Propetkov, friendship with whom played a significant role in the artist’s creative life. Moscow: “Sharik -bearing”, “Compressor”, “Agricultural Building” and others. Gorky d. 5.5 square meters used antique smalt of different colors, Ural jasper and malachite, pink Orlets.
Armen Vartanyan was nominated for the Stalin Prize for the city of the press, wrote about this to the work: “... the artist created a bright, deeply realistic work. The image of a girl, symbolizing the idea of free, joyful work, fully meets the requirements of mosaic painting, based on the creative use of the traditions of Armenian fine art and the bold enrichment of these traditions ...
". Members of the Art Council of prof. Shumin, architects A. Rastovsky, Y. Belopolsky and others wrote in their conclusion that this is a panel "is the first in the history of the Armenian art of the Soviet period with a mosaic monumental work and is of great importance for the development of national monumental art." In the same store there was another work of Armen Vartanyan - the mosaic panel “Yerevan Morning”.
Yerevan was depicted from the Canker plateau in delicate and soft, caressing eyes. Unfortunately, the work disappeared during the laying of the crossing across Gorky Street, when part of the Armenia store was dismantled. Throughout the creative activity, A. Vartanyan constantly publishes on the pages of the republican and central press the article on the issues of Marxist-Leninist aesthetics, reviews of exhibitions and articles on the work of individual artists.
The method of the so-called “multilayer painting” for many years the main topic of research by Armen Vartanyan was the lost method of the so-called “multi-layer painting” of the greatest artists: Titian, Velazquez, Rubens, Van-Dyak, Rembrandt, etc. This work was crowned with such serious results that according to numerous evidence of domestic and foreign printing and foreign press and foreign press authoritative experts, served as the basis for recognizing it as the only researcher who managed to reveal the lost secrets of the technique and technologies of many great masters of the past and completely restore their methods.
Using these achievements, he managed to create brilliant copies of the masterpieces of world painting, for which he was called in the press the "double of Rembrandt". Pushkin opened an exhibition of exhibits of the world famous Dresden gallery. The copy he created was so close to the original that the largest experts in the field of fine art could not distinguish it from the original.
It was decided to explore the new canvas of X -rays with rays. Only they, penetrating through the layers of paint, could show how much the copy is really close to the original. And it turned out that Vartanyan wrote in paints in composition similar to Rembrandt's colors, that he used the same technology and technology. This was also convinced by the enlarged pictures of individual sections of the canvas written by the restorer [2] Armen Vartanyan was awarded a high title - professor of the Dresden gallery, and a copy of the picture found a worthy place in the museum named after Pushkin in Moscow.
Copies of the masterpieces of world painting Armen Vartanyan made brilliant copies of masterpieces of world painting: Rembrandt.