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Somehow, a certain national artist of Russia asked the men: "We know that you folk artist, but when deserved become?" Honored Artist of Armenia Sedrak Arakelian has always been a popular artist, and this fact was obvious to all - artists, art historians, intellectuals and ordinary people. This unequivocal recognition he deserved the sincerity and truthfulness of his art, which put all the impulses of his soul, his eyes vigilance and consummate possession of a brush. And best of all it is confirmed by the words of the patriarch of our painting Saryan: "What happens if one day of exposure Yerevan art gallery remove etudes Arakelyan! .." About him write such famous masters as Edward Isabekian and Gabriel Gyurjyan, art Matevossian Wilhelm Heinrich Igityan, writer Marietta Shahinian and many others.
And the more decades to keep us away from earthly life master, who died on the 58 th year of life, just a month after opening his first solo exhibition in the difficult 42-m (the rest of the exhibition were posthumously), the brighter, heavier and more beautiful is imperishable art artist . Sedrak Arakelyan was not deprived of the attention: his work exhibited throughout his life, not only in Yerevan, but in Moscow and Tbilisi, St. Petersburg, as well as in Venice, Paris, Stockholm and New York.

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It was a few posthumous solo exhibitions in Yerevan, and always and everywhere accompanied by the artist recognition and sincere admiration for how music can listen with his whole being, without analyzing, and without delving into the secrets of professional skill and creativity S. Arakelyan perceived primarily emotionally disturbed its immediacy, romantic impulse, awakened all the best in man. ... Sedrak Arakelyan was born into a peasant family in the village nahidzhevanskom Dzhauk. Father was sent to Tiflis, where he worked as an apprentice tailor, to fulfill the dream of his father and become a master tailor.
But a fluke led him first in Tiflis School of Painting and Sculpture, where he studied under E. Tatevosyan and B. Vogel, and then in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture - by A. Arkhipov, K. Korovin and A. Vasnetsov. Having been in Armenia, he was forever fascinated by its nature, the Lake Sevan and in 1919 finally settled in Yerevan, married, became a father actively involved in all artistic and social endeavors of young Soviet republic. He was the first director of the Art School (now College im.Terlemezyana), where he taught until the 37-year, and he is not only a member of the Artists' Union of Armenia, but also a member of the Board, Chief, painting, party organizations izoperedvizhnoy workshop and its expeditions. However, the inexorable fate of the life of the master, when his art was in bloom and many unfinished plans, unfulfilled - dreams. But the bracket has been created by so great that an artist without controversy and doubt became one of the first places in the national fine art, where resides to this day, when the grateful countrymen celebrate his birthday - 125 years birthday.
In the creative legacy S. Arakelyan dominated landscapes, but his composition "Sevan's Fishermen" and "culture - in the mountains!" etched in my memory, as they created several portraits of women. That subtle fusion of realism and impressionism, which carried out the artist, filling with light and saturated colors, imbued with the fresh air stream of his canvases, nobody mogzhet indifferent. Already in one of the early works - "Portrait Siranuysh Berberian (1913) - The craving for a psychological portrayal of the image and the effect of color contrast - black and red. As rightly remarked Henry Igityan, colorist can not be, they need to be born. And he added: Armenian artist should create a national flavor. A comprehensive view of the deep pass patterns - whether a self-portrait or twice portrayed S. Berberian, affecting particularly the human depth Ripsime Sargsyan or unknown leader-production - could only be a creator, not only endowed with exceptional scenic skill but also deep and rich inner world, absorbed cultural legacy of the Armenian and world history. The hard work of Sevan's Fishermen in the composition of the same name (1935) underline the deliberately low-key color range of brown-lilac color, and dynamic characters, and the turbulent weather on the lake. Across the shore and a nearby piece of water is strictly deliberately discharged figures of fishermen, and very concrete material summarizes the major theme. Sometimes art is guided by the task wizard to create a unique fabric "culture - in the mountains!" (1936). S. Arakelyan boldly gives here will fantasy, clearly and vividly depicts the camels bearing the most valuable of all the ages for our people object culture - books, educational attributes. But most unpretentious artist is drawn to the pictures of nature, undemanding corners of his native land, finding the inexhaustible charm of baking bread, women, autumn alleys in the gardens of Yerevan, its old market and caravanserai. Referring repeatedly to the types of Sevan, its monasteries, cliffs and steep bank, S. Arakelyan whenever selects a new view images, new lights, different seasons and day and constantly admires himself, and makes us complicit in the miracle of nature. And how beautiful it spring flowering trees and especially the fall in the luxurious decoration in multicolored hues and tones! And the mountains, the Armenian mountains, serve it in ocher scale ( "Landscape", 1939), then painted in pink dawn ( "Pink Rocks", 1940, "Sevan. Morning." 1940), in the harsh blue ( "Small Masis "Mount Ara"). Surprise filing first strikes, but soon becomes a mother, and Eternal Peace emanates from the artist's gaze peeped extraordinary unique landscape of female figures engaged in commonplace - the collection of cotton pshata, baking bread ... And full of what he saw, enriched by them, a man better, more colorful and grateful for the pictures not only his native countryside, but life itself, where, along with grief, loss, disaster and has absolute good - the luxury of understanding art and its eternal values.

Zulfi OHANYAN
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Arakelian Sedrak Arakelovich [17 (29) .12.1884, pp. Dzhauk, now in the Azerbaijan SSR - 6/3/1942, Yerevan], a Soviet painter, Honored Artist of Armenian SSR (1935). Graduated (1916) Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied under SV Ivanov, Konstantin Korovin and A. Arkhipov. Author lyrical landscapes and genre and landscape paintings. Works: "The old market in Yerevan" (1921), "The Monastery of Sevan" (1925), "a spring" (1928), "Culture in the Mountains" (1936), "Zangezur. Goris Old" (1940) - all in the Art Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, "picking cotton on the collective farms" (1930, Tretyakov Gallery).