THE PAINTERS OF SORROW. Cont'd.
MINAS
AVETISSIAN
His tragic death ended his fifteen years period of creative activity during which time Minas produced five hundred paintings, almost the same number of graphic works, twenty murals, and designed over ten theatrical decors. It seemed that destiny was pursuing the artist. The fire that engulfed his studios destroyed more than a hundred pieces of his works. The earthquake of 1988 destroyed part of his murals and ruined his home-museum, built in his birth village of Jajur. The spiritual father of Minas is Sarian. Minas became the continuator of the work of the great master and the symbol of the new found renaissance in national art. If, in the works of Sarian, the scheme of colors is subordinate to the light of the sun, color in Minas's works is charged with passion, dramatic tension, and often tragic mood. This sub-conscious dramatics is the result of contemporary man's restlessness, turmoil and has within it a healthy vitality, a powerful force."
Photos: Left, the village of Djadjour, 1960. Right: A corner of Lenninakian, 1974.
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