born in 1936, Armenia, former USSR, now resides in Vancouver, B. C., Canada)
Education:
* Started to paint at the age of fifteen
* 1953 - 1958: College of Arts named after Terlemizian, Armenia (art, painting, Physics, Chemistry, Math, etc.)
* 1958 - 1962: Art Academy and Supreme College of Arts named after Mukhina, St. Petersburg
Exhibitions:
* From 1961to 1996 almost every year presented several pictures (paintings and graphics) to the Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (Russia)
* 1962: Germany (Berlin). Three paintings displayed (one sold)
* 1967: Armenia (capital: Erevan). Personal exhibition - 110 items (paintings, graphics) displayed. More than ten pictures were bought by the Armenian Ministry of Culture and the Union of Painters of the USSR
* 1970: Italy (Bjenale). Exhibition of the Books' Graphics. Eight pictures displayed
* 1983: Russia (Moscow). Personal exhibition - more than 100 items (paintings, graphics) displayed. More than thirty paintings sold
* 1984: Austria (Vienna, Galerie am Brahmsplatz); 5 paintings & 7 graphics displayed
* 1994: France (Paris). Two months' exhibition. 40 items displayed, 3 pictures sold
* 1996: Canada (Vancouver). Joint exhibition with a painter from England
* 1997 - Canada (Vancouver): Joint exhibition with a painter from Japan organized by the Pentecost Church. Two paintings sold
Pictures were sold to and exhibited at the world famous galleries and museums:
In 1983 more than 10 pictures were sold to the Tretjakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia); three graphics to the Pushkin Museum (Moscow, Russia) and about 20 items to the Museum of Peoples of the Orient (Moscow, Russia). About five hundred paintings were sold in the former Soviet Union in all
Awards and publications about M. Petrosian's creative activity:
* 1984: Martin Petrosian becomes the Acknowledged Artist of the Republic of Armenia (the highest state award)
* 1998: A documentary movie was released in Armenia (half an hour)
* Numerous publications in Russian, Armenian, Bulgarian German and French newspapers, art magazines
Periods of creative work:
* 1961 - 1963: Tashism. Drawing with bright and explicit colors. However this genre doesn't have any future for an artist who wants to express himself/herself
* 1963 - 1964: Withering gamma. The colors become slightly faded, and blue and green start to dominate
* From 1964 to present: Faded Colors. Approaching classical Renaissance (Italian, French, German) but in his own and individual way. The painter's motto is: "Drinking from the original spring/source". Creation of a personal genre, intrinsic exclusively to Martin Petrosian
* 1996: moved to Canada (Vancouver) where resides presently
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