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Ara Sargsyan soviet sculptor

Monument to Hovhannes Tumanyan in Yerevan

Monument to Ara Sargsyan in Yerevan

The story of Ara Sargsyan – a sculptor, the first rector of the Academy of Arts and avenger

It is almost impossible to visit Yerevan and not see the work of the sculptor Ara Sargsyan. In front of one of the most popular places in the city – the building of the Opera and Ballet Theater, there are monuments to two great Armenians – Hovhannes Tumanyan and Alexander Spendiaryan. Both monuments belong to the hand of the famous sculptor, now inappropriately forgotten Ara Sargsyan. Ara Sargsyan embodied his monumental work in Gyumri, over which Mother Armenia proudly towers – a symbol of victory.

Moiseenko Evsey Evseevich Soviet painter

Biography of Moiseenko Evsey Evseevich

Moiseenko Evsey Evseevich was born on August 15, 1916 in the village of Uvarovichi, Budo-Koshelevsky district, Gomel region. His father died that same year without seeing his son. The boy was raised by his mother Matryona Sergeevna and grandfather Prokop Naumovich.

Okas Ewald Karlovich

Okas Ewald Karlovich (Estonian Evald Okas; November 15 (28), 1915, Revel, Russian Empire – April 30, 2011, Tallinn, Estonia) – Soviet and Estonian artist-painter, graphic artist, teacher. People’s Artist of the USSR (1963), Hero of Socialist Labor (1985).

Japaridze Ucha Malakievich. Self-portrait. 1941

Japaridze Ucha Malakievich was born in Gori in 1906 and from childhood he showed an interest in art. That is why I went to study and graduated from the M. Toidze People’s Art Studio, and then the Academy of Arts (AH) of Tbilisi. Subsequently, Japaridze became a teacher of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts and the author of many works – “May Day Demonstration in Tiflis in 1901”, “Friends of Youth”, “Mother’s Duma”.

Iosif Bokshai, Self-portrait. 1940s

Biography of Iosif Bokshai

Born in 1891 in the village of Yasnaya Polyana, Rakhiv district, Transcarpathian region. His grandfather, father and brother were Greek Catholic priests. In the family, everyone was fond of art (music and painting).

Bozhy Mikhail Mikhailovich

Bozhy Mikhail Mikhailovich was born in Nikolaev, on September 20, 1911, in a working-class family his father worked in a hot shop as a molder-caster. the end of their days.

At the table. 1956 g.

Bogdesko Ilya Trofimovich

Bogdesko Ilya was a great master of engraving, calligraphy, wall painting, and unique book graphics. Among the most famous works of the artist are genre scenes and drawings for the story by N.V. Gogol’s “Sorochinskaya Fair”, illustrations for “Don Quixote” by Cervantes, portraits for “Gulliver’s Travel” by Jonathan Swift.

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