PARAVON MIRZOYAN: STATE AWARD DETERMINES A PAINTER’S PLACE IN NATIONAL CULTURE
Noyan Tapan
Jan 28, 2008
YEREVAN, JANUARY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. Receiving a state award is a great
honor to a painter: it means that the state attaches importance to
this painter’s role in national culture. This is how the director of
the National Picture Gallery Paravon Mirzoyan, who has been recently
given a state award, described significance of state awards for
artists at the January 25 meeting.
His works will be displayed in the city of Vanadzor in March of this
year. A personal exhibition of his works will later open in Saint
Petersburg. "I am a graduate of the Saint Petersburg Academy of
Arts and 30 years after my graduation I want to show my paintings
to my friends, teachers and all admirers of Armenian culture,"
P. Mirzoyan said.
"I paint spontaneously, when being affected by feelings. I feel fine
when painting. Every time when I finish my next work, it seems to
me that I have said everything. However, then again comes a state
when I want to create something new. Perhaps this is the secret of
a painter’s creative work," he said.
The director of the National Picture Gallery also spoke about Armenian
national painting, pointing out that today many painters have abandoned
national traditions and create in a "confused and incomprehensible way"
so that they works will be sold abroad. In his opinion, whenever art
becomes business, it is no longer art.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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