Sarian Martiros

1880, New Nakhichevan (now the district of Rostov-na-Donu) - 1972, Yerevan. Studied at MUZHVZ. He traveled to Georgia and Armenia, traveled to Turkey, Egypt, Iran. One of the founders of "Blue Rose" (1907). Member associations: "The World of Art", CPX, "4 Art". Lived and worked in Tiflis, the New Nakhichevan, Paris, but mostly in Yerevan. Landscape, portrait, still-lifes by. As aptly put M. Voloshin ( "Apollo", б? 9, 1913), Saryan innate instinct eastern soul has managed to merge the sharp color analysis of modern European painting with simple synthetic forms of Oriental art. It basically simplifies and drawing, and color, destroying all the details to an excess of color to fill a simple line silhouette. Works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; SRM, St. Petersburg State Picture Gallery of Armenia and the Museum of M. Saryan, Yerevan.