Ara Shiraz
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Ara Shiraz is an Armenian
sculptor, Hovhannes Shiraz
's and Silva Kaputikyan
's son.
Ara Shiraz is characterized with his monumental sculptural works of art such as the monuments of Baruyr Sevag (Yerevan, 1974), Yeghishe Charents (Charentsavan, 1977), Alexander Miasnikyan (Yerevan, 1980), and William Saroyan (Yerevan's Pantheon, 1991).
In 1979 Ara Shiraz was awarded the State Award of Armenia for his ornamental sculptures decorating the facade of the Dvin Hotel in Yerevan. In 1977 he was granted the title of Meritorious Artist of Armenia. In 1987 he was elected the president of the Artists' Union of Armenia, and a member of the Secretariat of the Artists' Union of the U.S.S.R.
Ara Shiraz' most renowned works include the busts of Pablo Picasso
, Yervand Kochar
, Hovhannes Shiraz
, and Vruir Galstian
. Many of his sculptural compositions are in permanent exhibit in the Modern Art Museum of Armenia and the State Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan, the Tretyakov Gallery
and the Eastern Nations Museum of Art in Moscow.
Ara Shiraz' paintings and sculptures are found in many private collections throughout the world: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Beirut, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, etc.
Ara Shiraz's paintings and sculptures are found in many private collections throughout the world: Moscow
, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi
, Yerevan
, Beirut
, Paris
, London
, New York
, Los Angeles
, Chicago
, Detroit, Montreal
, etc.
Andranik Ozanian's statue
Shiraz is also the author of Andranik's statue (2002). Andranik is sitting in two horse. They are symbolizing Western
and Eastern
Armenia
s.
Armenians
Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....
sculptor, Hovhannes Shiraz
Hovhannes Shiraz
Hovhannes Shiraz was a notable Armenian poet.- Biography :He was born Hovhannes Karapetyan in the city of Alexandropol, then part of the Russian Empire . His first work called Beginning of Spring was published in 1935...
's and Silva Kaputikyan
Silva Kaputikyan
Sirvard Barunaki "Silva" Kaputikyan was a 20th century prominent Armenian poet, writer, academian and public activist....
's son.
Biography
Ara Shiraz was born in Yerevan in 1941. He has graduated the Yerevan Theatre and Fine Arts Institute in 1966. He has participated in numerous young artists exhibitions in Armenia and the Soviet Union. Since 1968 he is a member of the Artists' Union of Armenia. His works have been exhibited in major cities of the U.S.S.R. (Moscow, Leningrad, Tbilisi) as part of solo and group shows. He has taken part in the Festival of Armenian Art "From Urartu to the Present" (Paris, 1970).Ara Shiraz is characterized with his monumental sculptural works of art such as the monuments of Baruyr Sevag (Yerevan, 1974), Yeghishe Charents (Charentsavan, 1977), Alexander Miasnikyan (Yerevan, 1980), and William Saroyan (Yerevan's Pantheon, 1991).
In 1979 Ara Shiraz was awarded the State Award of Armenia for his ornamental sculptures decorating the facade of the Dvin Hotel in Yerevan. In 1977 he was granted the title of Meritorious Artist of Armenia. In 1987 he was elected the president of the Artists' Union of Armenia, and a member of the Secretariat of the Artists' Union of the U.S.S.R.
Ara Shiraz' most renowned works include the busts of Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
, Yervand Kochar
Yervand Kochar
-BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:Yervand Kochar was born in Tbilisi on June 15, 1899. He was educated at Nersissyan school, in the Arts School of the Caucasus Association Promoting Fine Arts in Tbilisi, at Moscow Second State Tree Fine Arts Studios, at P. Konchalovsky's studio. In 1921 People's Commissariat of...
, Hovhannes Shiraz
Hovhannes Shiraz
Hovhannes Shiraz was a notable Armenian poet.- Biography :He was born Hovhannes Karapetyan in the city of Alexandropol, then part of the Russian Empire . His first work called Beginning of Spring was published in 1935...
, and Vruir Galstian
Vruir Galstian
Vruir Galstian was an Armenian painter.- Biography :Vruir Galstian was born in 1924, in Yerevan, Armenia. In 1958 he graduated from Panos Terlemezian Art College, Yerevan. From 1959 to 1964 he studied at Yerevan Fine Arts Institute...
. Many of his sculptural compositions are in permanent exhibit in the Modern Art Museum of Armenia and the State Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan, the Tretyakov Gallery
Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection,...
and the Eastern Nations Museum of Art in Moscow.
Ara Shiraz' paintings and sculptures are found in many private collections throughout the world: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Beirut, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, etc.
Works
- Yeghishe CharentsYeghishe CharentsYeghishe Charents was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist. Charents was an outstanding poet of the twentieth century, touching upon a multitude of topics that ranged from his experiences in the First World War, socialism, and, more prominently, on Armenia and Armenians.An early champion...
, Charentsavan, 1977 - Paruyr SevakParuyr SevakParuyr Rafaeli Ghazaryan was an Armenian poet. He is considered one of the greatest Armenian poets of the twentieth century. -Biography:...
, Yerevan, 1978 - Aleksandr MyasnikyanAleksandr MyasnikyanAleksandr Teodorosi Myasnikyan a.k.a. Aleksandr Fyodorovich Myasnikov was a prominent Bolshevik of Armenian descent....
, Yerevan, 1980 - William SaroyanWilliam SaroyanWilliam Saroyan was an Armenian American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:...
, Komitas PantheonKomitas PantheonKomitas Pantheon-Park is located in Yerevan's Shengavit district, on the right side of the main Arshakunyats Avenue. Many outstanding figures of Armenia's artistic world are buried here, including Komitas , one of Armenia’s great composers...
, Yerevan, 1984 - Tigran Petrosyan, Chess House, Yerevan, 1989
- Hovhannes ShirazHovhannes ShirazHovhannes Shiraz was a notable Armenian poet.- Biography :He was born Hovhannes Karapetyan in the city of Alexandropol, then part of the Russian Empire . His first work called Beginning of Spring was published in 1935...
Komitas PantheonKomitas PantheonKomitas Pantheon-Park is located in Yerevan's Shengavit district, on the right side of the main Arshakunyats Avenue. Many outstanding figures of Armenia's artistic world are buried here, including Komitas , one of Armenia’s great composers...
, 1989 - Sergei Parajanov, Komitas PantheonKomitas PantheonKomitas Pantheon-Park is located in Yerevan's Shengavit district, on the right side of the main Arshakunyats Avenue. Many outstanding figures of Armenia's artistic world are buried here, including Komitas , one of Armenia’s great composers...
, 1999 - Andranik Toros OzanianAndranik Toros OzanianAndranik Ozanian , Andranik Toros Ozanian , General Andranik , also as Antranik or Antranig was an Armenian general, political and public activist and freedom fighter, greatly admired as a national hero.-Early Age:Antranik Toros Ozanian was born in the church...
In the front of the Saint Gregory the Illumminator Cathedral, 2002 - Hovhannes ShirazHovhannes ShirazHovhannes Shiraz was a notable Armenian poet.- Biography :He was born Hovhannes Karapetyan in the city of Alexandropol, then part of the Russian Empire . His first work called Beginning of Spring was published in 1935...
, Malatia-Sebastia District, Yerevan, 2005 - Vazgen IVazgen IHis Holiness Vazgen I was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1955 and 1994, in one of the longest reigns of the Armenian Catholicoi. A native of Romania, he began his career as a philosopher, before becoming a Doctor of Theology and a member of the local Armenian clergy...
, Vaskenian Theological Academy, Sevan, 2008
Ara Shiraz's paintings and sculptures are found in many private collections throughout the world: Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi
Tbilisi
Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
, Yerevan
Yerevan
Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, Beirut
Beirut
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, London
London
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, New York
New York
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, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Detroit, Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, etc.
Andranik Ozanian's statue
Shiraz is also the author of Andranik's statue (2002). Andranik is sitting in two horse. They are symbolizing Western
Western Armenia
Western Armenia is a term, primarily used by Armenians, to refer to Armenian-inhabited areas of the Armenian Highland that were part of the Ottoman Empire and now are part of the Republic of Turkey....
and Eastern
Eastern Armenia
Eastern Armenia or Caucasian Armenia was the portion of Ottoman Armenia and Persian Armenia that was ceded to the Russian Empire following the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829...
Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
s.