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🏛️ The National Gallery of Armenia presents "Martiros Sarian. "Book and Art" comprehensive exhibition.
⚜️ Around ninety valuable illustrations by Martiros Sarian feature the rich heritage left by the Master in the sphere of book graphics. Most of them are exhibited for the first time.
🖼️ The exposition starts with illustrations of works of Armenian classic writers Hovhannes Tumanian, Vahan Terian, Yeghishe Charents and Avetik Isahakian. It includes the earliest illustrations in book graphics which Sarian has created for the books of Russian authors Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Elsner and Valery Brusov as well as those of works of Vahan Totovents, Gurgen Mahari, Mikayel Nalbandian and Marietta Shahinian.
The artist illustrated also textbooks and children's literature. The fairy tale motifs, born with a touch of pen tip or a brush take us to the worlds which are close and familiar since childhood...
The exhibition is rounded off by the magnificent illustrations of poem "Rostam and Sohrab" from the world poetry masterpiece "Shahnameh", where Sarian's masterly brush and bright imagination, in Persian miniatures style, breathe new life into the oriental stories showing all their fascination and profundity.
⚜️ Exhibition curators: Haykuhi Sahakyan, Seda Khanjyan.
🖼️ The exhibition will be open from November 3 till December 18.