THE PAINTERS OF SORROW. Cont'd.
INNOVATIVE CREATIVITY:
Such
innovative creativity appeared in many of his work and particularly in famous
paintings such as the portrait of the Armenian engineer Alexander
Tamanyan in 1932. In that particular painting, the artist added to the
background of the paintings, an impression of the blue prints and lay out
design of the Armenian Opera House under project. The background was a play
ground for structural and architectural ideas, concepts and design lines; a
sort of a drawing board of the construction site, exterior design, the house
façade, including very meticulous details. This innovation gave depth, extra
dimension and substance to the portrait subject of his study. Another
characteristic feature of his creativity was the exteriorization of the inner
feelings and sentiments of his models.
tTHE
SETTLEMENT by SARYAN
Photo :Tadevosian,
Soureniants, Saryan (Ctr.) Terlemezian (seated), 1916.
To his portraits, Saryan added a perfect blend of nonchalant strokes of
unconformity with meticulous attention to details to project the most pleasant
attributes of his subjects, qualities and virtues such hope, happiness,
strength, optimism and self-assurance. His portraits would not sit there
like a historical reference or a representation of a human face that should
look exactly how others conceive it or expect it to appear to them, to history
and to evidential authenticity. Each of his portrait painting is a human
drama, sad or joyful, it still remain a human documentary rather than an
appealing and truthful reproduction of the physical traits of the model. You
can feel the person in his portraitures. This models do not sit or pose for
him, they come to him with a story to tell. This is so evident in the
portraits of his
Holiness
Katholikos Vazgen the First,
the Russian melodramatic poet
Lozinsky
and the Armenian
dramatist and poet
Avetik
Isshakyan.
Major works:
Poet at the Foot of Aragats, 1906. By the Well. Hot Day, 1908. Flowers of
Kalaki, 1914. Street. Afternoon. Constantinopole, 1910. Egyptian Masks,
1911. Night Landscape, 1911. Date Palm, 1911