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Areg Elibekyan
Areg Elibekyan (; born June 29, 1970) is an Armenian painter. Biography Areg Elibekyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, the son of Robert Elibekyan. From 1987 to 1992, he studied at the Yerevan Arts and Theatre Institute, but has lived in Montreal since 1992. His work has been exhibited in Armenia, France, Lebanon, Canada, and the United States and displayed at the Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, Alex & Marie Manoogian Museum of Detroit, and the Arame Art Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia. Since 2009, Elibekyan has been an art instructor at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Public Collections * Modern Art Museum (Yerevan, Armenia) * Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum (Southfield, Michigan, United States) * City of Le Vésin (France) * City of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada) * Musée des maitres et artisans du Québec (Montréal, Québec, Canada) * Arrondissement de St-Laurent (Montréal, Québec, Canada) Personal exhibitions *2016 Arame Art Gallery, Yerevan *2016 Stewart Hall, Poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country, as its primate city. It has been the Historical capitals of Armenia, capital since 1918, the Historical capitals of Armenia, fourteenth in the history of Armenia and the seventh located in or around the Ararat Plain. The city also serves as the seat of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese, which is the largest diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and one of the oldest dioceses in the world. The history of Yerevan dates back to the 8th century BCE, with the founding of the fortress of Erebuni Fortress, Erebuni in 782 BCE by King Argishti I of Urartu, Argishti I of Urartu at the western extreme of the Ararat Plain. Erebuni was "designed as a great administrative an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA; french: Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, MBAM) is an art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest art museum in Canada by gallery space. The museum is located on the historic Golden Square Mile stretch of Sherbrooke Street. The MMFA is spread across five pavilions, and occupies a total floor area of , 13,000 () of which are exhibition space. With the 2016 inauguration of the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace, the museum campus was expected to become the eighteenth largest art museum in North America. The permanent collection included approximately 44,000 works in 2013. The original "reading room" of the Art Association of Montreal was the precursor of the museum's current library, the oldest art library in Canada.MMFA Library The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Artists From Yerevan
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such as a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Births
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Culture Of Armenia
The culture of Armenia encompasses many elements that are based on the geography, literature, architecture, dance, and music of the people. Creative arts Literature Literature began in Armenia around 401 A.D. The majority of the literary arts were created by Moses of Khorene, in the 5th century. Through the years the elements of literature have changed as the stories and myths were passed on through generations. In the late 17th century, Alexander Tertzakian was a renowned Armenian writer who created several works considered to be among Armenia's classics. During the 19th century, writer Mikael Nalbandian worked to create a new Armenian literary identity. Nalbandian's poem "Song of the Italian Girl" may have been the inspiration for the Armenian national anthem, Mer Hayrenik. Mesrop Mashtots is considered to be the creator of the Armenian alphabet. This event which took place in the 5th century is considered to be one of the most important turning points of Armenian Liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Armenians
This is a list of notable Armenians. Historical * List of Armenian monarchs By country ;Americas * List of Armenian Americans * List of Armenian Canadians ;Caucasus * List of Azerbaijani Armenians * List of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh ;Europe * List of French Armenians * List of Greek Armenians * List of Armenians in the United Kingdom * List of Romanians of Armenian descent * List of Russian Armenians ;Middle East * List of Egyptian Armenians * List of Iranian Armenians * List of Iraqi Armenians * List of Lebanese Armenians * List of Ottoman Armenians * List of Syrian Armenians * List of Turkish Armenians By occupation Ambassadors List of ambassadors of Armenia Art * List of Armenian architects * List of Armenian artists * List of Armenian women artists Business * List of Armenian businesspeople Chefs *George Duran, American chef *Geoffrey Zakarian, ''Iron Chef America'' Entertainers * Davit Gharibyan (born 1990), media personality, actor, directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Armenian Artists
This is a list of notable artists of Armenians, Armenian descent. A *Khachik Abrahamyan, Abrahamyan, Khachik – painter *Ariel Agemian, Agemian, Ariel – painter *Karen Aghamyan, Aghamyan, Karen – painter *Arturs Akopjans, Akopjans, Arturs – painter *Ivan Aivazovsky, Aivazovsky, Ivan – painter *Yuhanna al-Armani, al-Armani, Yuhanna – painter *Gegham Aleksanyan, Aleksanyan, Gegham – painter, sculptor *Alexander Arutiunian, Arutiunian, Alexander – composer, pianist *Şahan Arzruni, Arzruni, Şahan – classical pianist *Ashot Avagyan, Avagyan, Ashot – painter *Charles Garabed Atamian, Atamian, Charles Garabed – painter *Edward Avedisian, Avedisian, Edward – painter *Apo Avedissian, Avedissian, Apo – filmmaker, painter, photographer, and writer *Andranik Avetisyan, Avetisyan, Andranik – painter *Minas Avetisyan, Avetisyan, Minas – painter *Charles Aznavour, Aznavour, Charles – singer-songwriter B *Arno Babajanian, Babajanyan, Arno – composer, pian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vagharshak Elibekyan
Vagharshak (in Western Armenian Vagharshag) (in Armenian Վաղարշակ) is an Armenian given name. It may refer to: * Vagharshak Harutiunyan (born 1956), Armenian politician and minister *Vagharshak Kosyan Vagharshak Kosyan is an Armenian-Abkhazian military leader and politician. During the War in Abkhazia, he was commander of the Bagramyan Battalion. Kosyan was awarded the Hero of Abkhazia title, the highest state award of Abkhazia, for his se ..., Armenian-Abkhazian military leader and politician See also * Arshak III (fl. 4th century – died 387), also known as Arshak III-Vagharshak, Arsaces III, Arsak III, Armenian prince who served as a Roman client king of Arsacid Armenia from 378 until 387. {{given name Armenian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian Library And Museum Of America
Armenian Museum of America (AMA), located in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, is an institution that has the largest collection of Armenian artifacts in North America. History In 1971, alarmed by the growing loss and destruction of Armenian books and artifacts brought to this country by immigrants from Armenia, a group of talented Greater Boston Armenian-Americans banded together to form AMA to collect and preserve these books and artifacts. From humble beginnings in two rooms rented in 1972 in a church parish house in Belmont, AMA grew and expanded into a Watertown church's basement and opened to the public in 1985. In 1988, AMA was able to buy and remodel the former Coolidge Bank and Trust Building at 65 Main Street in Watertown. The building is dedicated to the memory of Stephen P. Mugar and Marian G. Mugar, his wife. After being opened to the public as the Armenian Library and Museum of America in 1988, the name was officially changed to Armenian Museum of America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
