Bidspirit auction | Martin Petrosyan (Armenian, b. 1936)

Martin Petrosyan (Armenian, b. 1936) - Martin Petrosyan (Armenian, b. 1936), mixed media on card, signed and dated 1968 l. r., 34 x 25 cm. Notes Martin Petrosyan (born in 1936) is a master who has an extremely original decorative-coloring and at the same time graphic-linear thinking. His portraits and landscapes are thematic compositions comprising daily, historical-legendary, fairy-mythological motives which are executed on a cardboard or on a canvas in the technique of oil painting and are distinguished with a vague and dim light, deep and transparent tones and a simplified and stylized drawing. The artistic characters and eventheworks depicting specific people created by Martin Petrosyan are considerably impersonalized and transformed, nearlylost their outwardly likeness, removed from a real visual impressionand psychologically uncharacterized mystical visions.Many of Petrosyan’s works are in essenceimages deliberately removed from external reality, alienated from thelife of stagnating and aligned, ideologically and morally impoverished society, they arecompletely enclosed in the parallel artistic reality, in theirown inner world. They are nothing but evidences of nonconformity, expressed inartistically specific, metaphorical and conditional language.