Means, which handles Grigoryan precise and definite: emphasize the constructive solid figure, the geometrization of forms, compositional clarity, restraint of color - all together tells his works inner strength, expressiveness, energy. Conciseness reinforces generality, condenses the thought and form, focusing on the basic idea of the paintings.
Henry Igityan
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I had good teachers, but one way or another, about painting, I know little. You can say I know nothing. Forty years of writing in oils and did not understand what the color: when he is born, how come, where it goes, as preserved? .. I know that painting is my life and besides this miracle God has given me a wonderful creature, in whose presence everything is beautiful and clear. I know little and do not understand how others draw, walk, swear, when close to them there is no such person as my Diana.
Gevorg Grigoryan
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"... No force can deviate from its path. His artistic life did not know of stagnation." "As a lover, picked up the brush and stood before the easel, even in those days, when he was completely unable to exhibit." Grieved and insulted, but do not despair. He was a unique example of the artist who selflessly serve art, the artist's steadfast and principled consistency. "There were some features of Don Quixote. The idea of truth in art, for it has always been above the standard of welfare and glory, the desire that leaves the person with the last breath."
Ruben Zarian
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Gevorg Grigoryan
(Giotto)
1897 - born in Tiflis.
In the seven years he was forced to work: "boy" of a black oil stock, a barbershop, a messenger, newsboy, a fruit seller at the shop, bookstall, glazier, etc.
1916-1920 - became the school of painting and sculpture in the Caucasian society to promote Fine Arts (Tbilisi), where he studied with A. Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, E. Kochar, L. Gudiashvili.
1918 - participated in the balance sheet show the students the school.
1921 - with a group of young actors under the direction of Suren Khachatrian (brother of Aram Khachaturian), went to Moscow to study.
Joined the second year in VHUTEMAS-a. Became a member of the section of artists "Ayartuna.
1922 - began to teach drawing in labor schools.
1924 - entered the Russian workers' school in GPI them. Lenin.
1927 - participated in the exhibition in Tbilisi artists, the exhibition of art of the USSR, on the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution (Moscow).
1929-1948 - participated in almost all the exhibitions organized in Yerevan and Tbilisi.
1948 - began years of oblivion. In a fit of desperation and despair, the artist had been burned 300 paintings.
1948-1957 - was expelled from the Union of Artists of Georgia.
From 1958 - resumed its participation in exhibitions.
1962 - thanks to the efforts of certain circles of the Armenian intelligentsia moved to Yerevan. It began to appear on articles in newspapers and magazines in Armenian and Georgian.
1965 - first solo exhibition in SH Armenia, Yerevan.
1972 - participated in the exhibition of artists Caucasus, Moscow.
1976 - died in Yerevan the day before his 79 birthday.
1980 - 25 November in Yerevan was a museum-workshop of Giotto.
Posthumous exhibitions:
1980 - Museum-workshop of Giotto, Yerevan.
1983 - Tbilisi, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, together with the works of his wife - artist Diana Ukleba.
1985 - in Kutaisi, Moscow and other cities of the former USSR and abroad.
His works are in museum-workshop of Giotto, the Museum of Modern Art (Yerevan), NGA, in numerous private collections in Armenia and around the world.
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