YEREVAN, JULY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. On July 14, art-lovers bade their farewell to the RA People's Painter, USSR state prize-winner, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Art, professor Sargis Muradian. "Today we are bidding farewell to one of the best Armenian painters. Armenian artistic culture has been enriched by Sargis Muradian's creations. The painter's name will always remain in the history of Armenian people's culture," the RA Deputy Minister of Culture, Gagik Gyurjian said. In the words of Karen Aghamian, the Chairman of the Union of Painters of Armenia, today Armenian painting has lost one of its greatest painters. However, K. Aghamian said that S. Muradian is one of the painters, whose name is immortal in all centuries. Paravon Mirzoyan, the Director of the Armenian National Gallery, said that S. Muradian's merit is so great in the Armenian painting that the next generations have no right to forget such a painter and excellent pedagogue. "S. Muradian has devoted his whole life to the Armenian people. Only his last canvas "The Last Night: Komitas" is the evidence of his being a patriot, and his worshipping his nation was the greatest guarantee for me. Great people remain in my mind forever. For me, S. Muradian is one of the great people going to that eternity," RA People's Artist Vladimir Abajian said. S. Muradian was buried at Yerevan's town Pantheon.

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