This is Seiran Khatlamadjian

Seiran Khatlamadjian (Armenian: Սեյրան Խաթլամաջյան or Սէյրան Խաթլամաճեան; April 20, 1937 – September 14, 1994) was a prominent Armenian painter, graphic artist, and public figure. He is considered as one of the founding fathers of the Armenian abstract art movement.

Seiran Khatlamadjian born April 20, 1937 in the village of Chaltyr close Rostov-on-Don. His parents were dispossessed landowners. Since childhood, Seiran was fascinated by drawing and at the age of 14 starts his investigation at children’s art educational in Rostov-on-Don. In 1953 he entered Mitrofan Grekov School of Art in Rostov-on-Don and graduated from the School in 1959 like honors. Then Seiran Khatlamadjian moved to Yerevan, Armenia and enrolled in 1959 in Yerevan Fine Arts and Theater Institute, graduated from it in 1964. Seiran Khatamaladjian’s years of his student sparkle in the capital of Armenia were marked by his lithe involvement in social and cultural issues.

Initially the young artiste was influenced by Martiros Saryan, but after that evolved into a non-figurative style of painting. The source of his artistic inspiration in his vanguard years was the action of Wassily Kandinsky and Arshile Gorky. In the abstract genre Seiran Khatlamadjian used as a soft, transparent appearance and sprightly and competent colors. The artist is furthermore known for his series of “Magic Armenia”, which is an artistic fusion of history and mythology, reality and mystery, paganism and Christianity. Khatlamadjian participated in many ethnographic expeditions to Armenia and painted landscapes in all its regions. In this case, all of his creative spirit was enormously related to Armenia, where he fixed and drew several paintings which were severely respected by the public and professionals. In 1967, he became a zealot of the Artists’ Union of Armenia. Seiran Khatlamadjian left a large number of paintings and drawings, some of which are exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), National Gallery of Armenia, Contemporary Art Museum (Yerevan), Museum of Oriental Cultures (Moscow), Gnessins Music Institute (Moscow), Rostov Regional Museum of Local History, Nonconformist Art Museum (New Jersey, USA), and in a number of disclose buildings in Armenia such as the Constitutional Court, Residence of President, and National Assembly. His play in is next exposit in many private collections in Armenia and abroad. Seiran Khatlamadjian achievement an emotional character parallel considering the art of Arshile Gprky. Khatlamajian has the energetic line, but he is the more lyrical of in his finely executed drawings and his abstract canvases (1991-1994). Freed of the constraints of figurative art, this artist Make a visual structure, which, at its best, can be considered a plastic formula for the Armenian spirit: a polyphonic pact of colors penetrated by prickly and thorn-like lines. This coexistence in his works of peaceful concurrence and dramatic broil reflecting the scared course of Armenian history.

Seiran Khatlamadjian took active part in the public computer graphics in Armenia and was not limited to his role as artist. With his adopt participation, Khatlamadjian developed and adopted make a clean breast symbols for the Republic of Armenia. He actively searched archives and studied the let in anthem of the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920.) Khatlamadjian contributed to the restoration of the Armenian jacket of arms which was created by the architect Alexander Tamanyan and academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Hakob Kojoyan. He has been actively tension for its cheer as a national welcome anthem of independent Armenia which was approved on April 19, 1992 by the Supreme Council of Armenia. Seiran Khatlamadjian died in September 14, 1994 and is buried in the city of Yerevan.