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Gevorg is without question one the most important artist's to emerge from the newly freed countries of the former Soviet Union. Armenia, his home country where he is known and respected is a galaxy of artistic star's and brightest among them shines Gevorg .
His ability to express love, femininity and the beauty of a woman's soul through his artistic creations is indeed a very rare gift .His philosophy of life and the love of beauty is exhibited and captured forever with every brush stroke in each creation. His synthesis of the universe and human form as seen through his eyes is far removed from fashion and very personal and unique. To him never a follower, Gevorg is indeed an artist of great talent, great sensitivity and an enduring phenomena in a world that is increasingly pedestrian and homogeneous.
As the owner of 30 fine art galleries throughout the USA and having dealt with many artist's world wide, it is very rare indeed to see the combination of a truly great talent with such artistic integrity being accepted by so many diverse people and becoming an incredible success.
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Michael D. O'Mahony
President and Chief Executive
Officer of Wentworth Gallery
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Gevorg Yeghiazarian's world conception is utterly individual and this conditions the dramatic encounter of his inner world with the surrounding reality: witness his moody and melancholic paintings revealing the artist's meditations. They are marked with poetical fancies and lyricism, blended with the idea of man's loneliness in this world.
The artist's work is singular, characterized with self-isolation and concentration of thoughts and emotions, which create a state of mind revealing a luminous feeling of the eternal.
The high professionalism of the painter allows him to reach new horizons using uncommon contrasts, "abnormal synthesis" and intentional deformations. The interdependence of light and color here is dominated by contrasts of space and substance, rest and strain, the transparency and opaqueness of colors.
Numerous outlines and various forms melting into each other give birth to whole canvases. Here the line intrudes the color, then stealthily and unhastily abandons it, leaving behind wonderful and creating a unique seeing of the world and objects. There is no alarm in Gevorg's paintings. The boundary between the real and the imaginary is uncertain and contingent, the work of the artist is full of enchanting and inexhaustible light.
I believe a unique artist with a singular talent and bright individuality has appeared in contemporary Armenian art. |
Emilia Der-Ghazarian
Art critic
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The visitor of the exhibition is confronted by this unusual Artist's tender love for maternity and childhood, and healthy admiration of nude female body. GEVORG YEGHIAZARIAN'S Artwork, through never sentimental, is transparent and melodious like the song of the solitary violin he likes so much to paint. The Artist evolves a style that combines quietness of lines with moody, restrained colors.
Following the Elder Generation of Artists (Among them Ervand Kochar, Alexander Bazhbeouk Melikian, Hakob Hakobian) Gevorg Yeghiazarian continues their interest to make an important shift in the Development of National Art.
Speaking of an Artist's work we quite often forget about his personal qualities. Breaking this tradition I must say the kindness, unselfishness and cordiality of the painter emerge potently in his unique images. |
Henrik Iguitian
Director of Modern Art Museum of Armenia
Honoured Art critic.
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An exciting, beautiful, mysterious world. An enigmatic Parajanoff dreamland which is real, however. This artist can change the strange into ordinary, the impossible into possible, and using tender and pleasant colors creates paintings where everything is humane and kind. Gevorg's boundless devotion to his work is the guarantee of the inevitable progress of his art. |
Hagop Hagopian
Artist-Painter
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In Gevorg Yeghiazarian's inner world memories and impressions of the past bring about such emotions, that move about under the 'suggestivity' of his subconscious, while being completely mastered by his instincts. Through his visions, the artist tries to exteriorize the probabilities of the inexplicable, and ingages in a mysterious dialogue, where his eyes become anchors of expressivity. |
Movses Zirani
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Among modern Armenian artists Gevorg, Yeghiazarian is famous for his unique figurative thinking. The violinist performing a tender piano in a dreamlike melancholic mood is a singular poetic symbol of his art. The inseparable characters of the player and the violin join in a magic image, take the viewer to a dream-world of Oriental-Persian bliss where feelings are subtilized and refined of worldly vanity. What is a meaning of this hidden, dim, mysterious symbol. Is it merely a romantic device? But this would be simplifying the artist's world conception.
The painter hardly stands the onslaught of energy released from every character emerging on the canvas. Some secret forces seem to lead the brush of the painter prompting him temper of the new parsonages. They multiply but preserve some inner kinship. At first sight we deal with an unimaginable blend of affinities, influences, associations and styles. The artist however succeeds in presenting this blend as rare and natural.
Gevorg Yeghiazarian has already worked out his own style on condition we understand it as a system of definite formal features. The roundish, heave arms, legs and shoulders, the fine grandeur of hands and feet convey the characters some animal flexibility which is both chaste and sensual. The painter creates personages with an obvious retrospection to classic forms, but his wilful treatment of the human body is amazing: he deforms it, twists the joins or screens them with drapery. At the same time, Yeghiazarian makes the bizarre transformation of lines and their logic accessible to as.
Through heavy forms of the flash one perceives the thick blend of mythological, antic-classic, modern and iconographic elements. His paintings have some affinity with the unreal. dim shades and the appeasing melody of fresco-painting. Very often the artist returns to the same topic seeing every time that the object is unattainable. And this pursuit seems to have no end. |
Marina Stepanyan
Art critic, Yerevan
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