Events / Exhibitions

30.10.2015 - 30.12.2015

Sedrak Arakelyan. Artworks’ Exhibition

On October 30, at 15:00 the National Gallery of Armenia will present the exhibition of artist Sedrak Arakelyan’s works. The pictorial and graphic works, studies and sketches of the various periods of the artist’s creativity will be displayed at the exhibition. The exhibition includes over 150 artworks from NGA, HMA, YHM and private collections.
Sedrak Arakelyan, a lyric painter of study landscapes and village life, had an invaluable role and great inheritance in Armenian painting. His artworks reflect the period’s concepts and artistic trends which get original solution under the artist’s paintbrush changing into national stories.
Receiving specialization and experience during his education under Y. Tadevosian at the Fine Arts and Sculpture School in Tiflis, and then under A. Arkhipov and K. Korovin at the Moscow Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture School, the artist gave new breath and colors to plein-air painting.
S. Arakelyan’s artworks are famous for their genre diversity. The majority of them include impressionistic studies depicted from most different corners of Armenian nature during his journey at native land. In impressionistic studies Arakelyan's color scale is full of all the shades of weather and a day's various moments. He liked to depict his intimate and sincere corners: the shores of Lake Sevan and its nearby villages, the fields of his birthplace Nakhijevan and the rocks of Goris.
The artist living in the village at his childhood, he often depicted village life. The harmonious relationship between a man and the nature in the master's art is presented with various ways: the crowded scenes with bright colors and lively figures, the chamber depicts showing the village and daily life and women at working – all of them are gifted national-lyric elements.
Sedrak Arakelyan had been participated in numerous private and group exhibitions in Armenia and abroad. His works are preserved at the National Gallery of Armenia, the Yerevan History Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the State Museum of Oriental Art (Moscow) and in private collections.

The exhibition will last till 30 December, 2015.

Haykush Sahakyan
 

 

Permanent
exhibition

Landscape (1963)

canvas, oil
35x50 cm