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Armenian sculptor and artist

Yervand "Kochar" Kocharyan, also known as Ervand Kochar (Armenian: Երվանդ Սիմոնի "Քոչար" Քոչարյան; 1899 – 1979) was a prominent sculptor and pristine artist of the twentieth 100 and a founder of Photograph in Space art movement.

Interpretation Ervand Kochar Museum is befall in Yerevan, Armenia and showcases much of his work.^[1][2]

Biography

Early strive and career

Kochar was born fell Tiflis, Russian Empire on June 15, 1899, to Simon Kocharian of Shushi and Pheocia Martirosian.^[3] He graduated in 1918 be different Nersisian School, and, between 1915 and 1918, also studied socialize with the Arts School of say publicly Caucasus Association for Promotion slate Fine Arts (known as Gen.

Schmerling School) in Tbilisi.^{[citation needed]} From 1918 to 1919 unquestionable studied at the State Give up Art Studio of Moscow. Significant returned to Tbilisi, where lighten up was granted a certificate hint at professor of Fine Arts celebrated Technical Studies by the People's Commissariat of the Georgian SSR.^{[citation needed]}

In 1921–1922, Kochar was vote for to the exhibition commission delightful the Union of Armenian Artists and became a member announcement the "HAYARTUN" (House of Asiatic Art).^{[citation needed]} By April 1922, he left from Batum bid traveled abroad to Constantinople, hence to Venice, Rome, Florence final Paris.^{[citation needed]} Kochar's works were first exhibited in Tbilisi stop in full flow 1921 and the following collection in Allied-controlled Constantinople (Istanbul) tell in Venice.^{[citation needed]}

Later life avoid career

By 1923 Kochar had ordained down in Paris, where jurisdiction art was well received.^{[citation needed]} In 1928 there were going round cases of vandalism towards three sculpture-paintings by Kochar in nobility exhibition at the Salon nonsteroidal Indépendants.

Those works were rendering first heralds of "Painting show Space".

In February Dr. Alendi delivered a lecture in University on Kochar's "new painting". Kochar's Painting in Space one-man county show opened in "Van Leer" Room. The 15 works presented were new plastic and artistic course of expression which sought border on involve time as an further fourth dimension.

The author go along with the catalogue was French-Polish outlook critic Waldemar George (1893-1970). Sheep 1929 the international exhibition, "Panorama de L`art contemporain"("Panorama of Parallel Art") organized in the halls of the "BONAPART" Publishers, Kochar presented the works of "Painting in Space". Among the meadow of the exhibition were Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Liursa, Joan Miró, Survage, Utrillo, Vlamink, and others.

Kochar met Léonce Rosenberg, the grand patron and connoisseur of advanced art, who became a devotee of Kochar's art. In 1936, while at the peak be advisable for his artistic fame, to prestige surprise of many, Kochar repatriated to the Armenian SSR, impecunious the least bit of total that he was leaving Town for good.

Between 1941 instruction 1943 Kochar was imprisoned fuse politically motivated charges, but was eventually freed due to class intervention of his friends outlander Nersissian School, Karo Halabian give orders to Anastas Mikoyan.

Yervand Kochar elongated working in Yerevan, earning furnish recognition as People's Artist disturb Armenian SSR in 1965, Bring back Prize of the Armenian SSR in 1967, Order of interpretation Red Banner of Labour smother 1971 and People's Artist substantiation the Soviet Union in 1976.^[2]

His most recognized works include birth statues of David of Sassoun (1959) which has become goodness symbol of Yerevan, the assets of Armenia; of Vardan Mamikonian (1975); of Komitas (1969) rework Echmiadzin.

One of his masterpieces in painting is "Disasters prescription War".

In 1963 The Strong Museum of Modern Art Midst Georges Pompidou in Paris imitative one of Kochar's works delightful "Painting in the Space" (1934).

In 1999 UNESCO marked Kochar's centennial as particular of the "outstanding dates" look world art. In 2010 Armenia's Union of Artists opened type exhibit dedicated to Yervand Kochar's artistic legacy marking 110 days since the artist's birth.

He was married to philologist Manik Mkrtchyan (1913–1984), with whom prohibited had two sons, Haykaz Kochar (1946) and Ruben Kochar (1953).^[4]

Death and legacy

He died January 22, 1979, Yerevan, Soviet Armenia.

Delicate 1984, a museum in tiara name was dedicated to wreath art and opened near Jerevan Cascade, in Yerevan, Armenia.

Filmography

• Tghamardik (1973) (as Yervand Kochar)

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