Razmik Khachikovich Mouradian (
Russian: Размик Хачикович Мурадян;
Armenian
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; Ռազմիկ Խաչիկի Մուրադյան; born May 20, 1938) is a
Russian-Armenian monumentalist sculptor.
Mouradian was born in Yerevan, Armenia on May 20, 1938. He moved to
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
at age 16 in the 1950s and graduated from the studio of
Nikolai Nikoghosyan in 1956.
Initially, Mouradian's sculptures were portraits, exclusively in wood and marble but later, in the 1970s, he began to make full figures and statues out of
bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such ...
.
Mouradian's art has been displayed in galleries worldwide and is featured in permanent exhibits at the
Tretyakov Gallery and the
Russian Museum
The State Russian Museum (russian: Государственный Русский музей), formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (russian: Русский Музей Императора Александра III), on ...
.
He has been a member of the Russian Academy of Arts since 2012 and was a member of the
Artists' Union of the USSR
The Artists' Union of the USSR (russian: Союз художников СССР, translit=Soyuz khudozhnikov SSSR) was a creative union of the Soviet artists and art critics embracing the Republics of the Soviet Union, Republics of the Soviet Union ...
from 1963 until its dissolution.
Mouradian currently resides in Moscow.
References
External links
Razmik Mouradian's official websiteRazmik Mouradian's FaceBook{{DEFAULTSORT:Mouradian, Razmik
1938 births
Living people
Russian people of Armenian descent
21st-century Armenian sculptors
Russian sculptors