EXHIBITIONS DEDICATED TO VICTORY'S 60TH ANNIVERSARY OPEN AT
NATIONAL GALLERY AND PAINTERS' UNION OF ARMENIA
06-05-2005 18:25:00 | Armenia | Culture
YEREVAN, MAY 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The exhibition that opened on
May 6 at the National Gallery of Armenia is dedicated to the
60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. More
than 50 works of 20 painters - participants of the Great
Patriotic War, painting, drawing and sculpture, were presented
at the exhibition.
According to Paravon Mirzoyan, Director of the National
Gallery of Armenia, this exhibition is the tribute of respect to
the generation that saved the mankind from Fascism. According to
him, most of the pictures kept in the gallery depositories were
created in the post-war period but on the days of the war the
painters continued to create. "The subject of the Great
Patriotic War was reflected in the creation of Armenian painters
at all times as a considerable part in this victory belongs to
our people, too," the National Gallery director mentioned.
Paravon Mirzoyan said that 80 Armenian painters came back
from the war but only 12 of them are alive today.
The same day an exhibition dedicated to the 60th
anniversary of the Victory opened at the Painters' Union of
Armenia. More than 100 works of 16 painters-participants of the
war were presented at the exhibition.
RA Ministry of Defence gave 20 thousand drams (40 dollars)
to each of 16 painters and Ara Abrahamian, Chairman of the
World Armenian Congress, gave 100 dollars to each of them.