Vahan Ananian (1959 - 2006)

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fross: Mediocrity so flooded that you do not know where I left the island. And as I find them? Maps that only the professionals and then only a narrow range.
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LSR: as the general public can learn about the artist?
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      All the cards I have not, but some islands are known.

      It seems that M. Gelman said that under the conditions of modernity, to the artist remembered after his death, it must be recognized during his lifetime. In part, I agree. But only partially. They can not all at once to stay in the mind.
      Hundreds of artists, not participating in public life, sitting in their shops, something painted, something talk ... So, anyway, taking place some processes (possibly deep), about which we learn later, or do not know, never.
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      One uncle, engaged in the theory of music, told with enthusiasm:
      - Purchased liturgy Shvedova, Exaltation of the Cross Cathedral Choir of Kaliningrad. Won over registration drive. Normally, I think the chorus of Pupyrlovki swung on Shvedova. He listened and oblez. Can you imagine, with a nuanced, tasteful, without mucus and screams, all the words are understandable, and most importantly - in the church. Not only is good, it is striking that nobody in Russia as they did not sing. Miracle! For some ten or fifteen years, an entire school of spiritual singing. It does not happen!
Everything was banal. Regent opened the first temple was a woman, who graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, never before engaged in spiritual singing. It is understood that all comes from the words and not from the music, plus education, culture musicianship ... I mean, before 1988 there have been no church - no tradition, all from scratch. And when there is no possibility of eavesdropping, compare, learn funny things happen ....
And then - easier: opening of new churches, the choir became the regents of the first chorus. So slowly, slowly ... spread what they have learned.
- And there they know that formed a new school?
- Why? They are about this, probably did not even think. Their cause to sing, and the school - a byproduct.
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Vahan Ananian (1959 - 2006)
He was engaged in painting, sculpture, graphics.
He has had solo exhibitions in galleries random, serious people in the eye, by accident, not caught.

      In the 80-90 lived in Tallinn and was, by virtue of its extravagance, this ornament of the city. Each day, post their work on the walls of "Maiden Tower" and sitting under them, hooligans, painting portraits (not earnings).
      I could afford: in the middle of the day to run away from the yellow-blue UAZ, riding on a stolen horse from the racetrack, cutting through the narrow streets of Tallinn, in a black cloak with foam wings behind his back and with a crown of dandelions on his bald head, and in the office to thank Estonian police for participation in hepeninge, and threaten that if they would not let the poor artist, but today their show on Finnish television:
      - Well, schto mi - belyarusskie you guys Plakhov sdelyali?

      Bright. Its neither among Ukrainian artists, nor among the Armenian, nor among Estonian, and he was.

      As far as I know, it still was not being pursued. Much work is "hands on" in Tallinn, a large number of paintings - his sister, I think in Yerevan, in any case, they say that it took away a year ago about a hundred canvases from Estonia (information for dealers, if anyone interested).
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P.S. Here, find a site with a selection of works from different periods:
http://www.oweamuseum.odessa.ua/2007...nanyan/s08.htm
Many works are not repeated.
http://www.vahan-gallery.com.ua/