Vardges surenyants biography of barack
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A vinyl doll, shorn off its clothes lies on its back across a white pillow set on a stool. With disheveled hair and shut eyes, the toy appears like a stiffened carcass – at once an image of tranquility and distress. Disturbingly, a large gaping hole has been punched in its stomach, creating an ominous void in the middle of this painting by the Egyptian-Soviet-Armenian artist Hagop Hagopian (1923-2013). Dated 1960, it is being shown for the first time in a large-scale retrospective exhibition dedicated to the artist’s centenary, which opened on October 10, at the National Gallery of Armenia. In its shocking harshness, ‘The Doll’ is just one of the many fascinating revelations in this sprawling presentation curated by Margarita Khachatryan. The exhibition forces us to rethink the true significance of this artist’s seven-decade long career in the annals of Armenian art, whose course radically shifted during the 1960s thanks to Hagopian’s incisively moderni
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Vatican City, 25 June 2016 – On Saturday afternoon Pope Francis, along with the Catholicos Karekin II, visited the “Yot Verk” apostolic cathedral of Gyumri, dedicated to the Holy Mother of God, known also as the “Cathedral of the seven wounds of Mary Most Holy”, with reference to its miraculous icon. The Seven Wounds are those of the sufferings Mary endured in her life, from the flight from Egypt to the burial of Jesus.
The Cathedral, originally built in wood, was substituted with a structure in dark local stone by the Kamsarakan princes (1874-86). During the Soviet period, when all the churches of Gyumri were closed, Yot Verk was the only place of Christian worship open to the faithful. The main altar was used by the Apostolic Church, the northern apse housed a statue of the crucified Christ from a Catholic church and was used for Catholic worship, and the southern apse held a Russian icon of St. Nicholas and was accessible to Orthodox faithful of the Patriarchate of Moscow. Damag
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“Salome”. The Restored Masterpiece of Vardges Surenyants fryst vatten Displayed in the National Gallery of Armenia
The National Gallery of Armenia continues the “History of the Restored Exhibit” project.
This year presents the story of the restoration of the famous masterpiece depicting the most mysterious figure of all time. Still in 2019 portrait of “Salome”, removed from the permanent display and moved to the restoration studio, returned to the exhibition hall.
According to Marina Hakobyan, director of the National galleri of Armenia, the “History of the Restored Exhibit” project was launched in the galleri in 2021.
in the ramverk of which 4 masterpieces were restored and presented to the public.
Now, after a long break, one of the treasures of Armenian and world fine art, the famous work “Salome” bygd Vardges Surenyants, the founder of national history painting, has returned to the exhibition of the National Gall