Armenian artists

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Simonian Koryun S.
Artist 1912 - 1943
BiografiyaRodilsya in the province of Kars, in the county Lower Basen, in the village mill. They had a large family, their name Smoevtsy, they are mainly engaged in beekeeping, and carpets cousin Zaruhi /Zaro /captured.
Koryun was still a child when Smoevtsy moved. On the way was born the younger brother of Cepu. Gayane's mother could not stand pain and died. His father, Stepan died in 1917 in Igdir. Senior family was my grandfather Mkrtich, who took over the care oserotevshih kids. But old and worn out by the Armenian peasant's could not do more than send the children first in Kars, and after Leninakan American children's home, which already has found refuge older sister Koryun Satenik. But soon the fate of her brother and sister are separated.
In 1926. boys orphanage Koryun Simonian arrives in Yerevan and comes in 2 year of art college.
In 1930. Koryun see in Leningrad, the Academy of Arts (Education in the IVC was held at the department of painting), which finally shows the personality of the artist-citizen.
Friends Koryun tell what he was demanding, first of all to himself.
Sometimes it almost finished painting cleaned, scraped and zanogo worked on them, wanting to reach beyond the artistic harmony of form and color. "Occupation, year after year, more complicated, in 1935 wrote Koryun from Leningrad to his friend, Tsolak Azizyan. Defective often think you can make in life is what stremishsya with which you live, or life will throw you in one direction with his brushes. When you look at the work of ancient masters, you feel as a great culture and superhuman trudalyubie requires a great deal. It is not easy to give, it gives the price of blood and sacrifice. " Portrait.