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- Workshop-Museum of Minas Avetisyan
The great Armenian artist Minas Avetisyan brought to the national painting not only an intense, fresh color vision, but also created a special, hitherto unfamiliar, image of Armenian nature, a kind of collective image of a harsh mountainous country. The Museum of Minas Avetisyan was founded in 1982 in the homeland of the artist, in the village of Dzhajur. In 1988, the building was damaged by an earthquake, but after restoration, in 2003, the museum was reopened. Its exposition includes a collection of works from the artist’s Yerevan workshop. Today, the museum presents works by the artist and his contemporaries.
Minas Avetisyan is one of the largest figures of Armenian painting in the second half of the 20th century. Since the 1960s, Minas has been creating his distinctive expressive paintings in which he follows the traditions of ancient Armenian painting. Color in his work dominates and is of fundamental importance. As an artist, organically connected with his native land, Minas forms his thoughts about the homeland, the world, and the person with the ideological function of light, the saturation of relations, the brightness and variety of the finest nuances. Minas also performed a number of frescoes and theatrical scenery.
