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Sarkis Diranian ( hy, Սարգիս Տիրանեան; 1854 - 1938) was an
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orientalist painter.''Women as portrayed in orientalist painting'' Lynne Thornton p.75
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, he was established for many years in
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.


Life

Diranian was born in 1854 in Constantinople and studied art at the school of drawing and painting opened on Hamalbaşi Street in
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by the French artist Pierre Desire Guillemet in 1875. His painting ''The Enchantress'' was exhibited in the photography studio of the Abdullah Freres in
Beyoğlu Beyoğlu (, ota, بك‌اوغلی, script=Arab) is a district on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey, separated from the old city (historic peninsula of Constantinople) by the Golden Horn. It was known as the region of Pera (Πέρα, meani ...
in 1883, and on the proceeds from its sale he went to
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and worked in the studio of
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. In the year 1883 or 1884, while still in
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, he was awarded the ''Mecidiye'' order by the Ottoman government, and in 1887 the Ottoman Ministry of Education began to pay him a monthly allowance. In 1889 he graduated from the
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in Paris, and until 1910 he participated in the exhibitions of the Societe des Artistes Francais in Paris. In 1892 and 1900 he won the prize of honor at the international Paris exhibitions. In 1908 he held a one-person exhibition in Paris and in 1909 participated in a mixed exhibition in
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. He died in
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in 1938.


Works

His major works include ''Woman Tying a Rose'' (1897), ''The Dancer'' and ''Five O'Clock'' exhibited in Paris in 1910, ''Naked Woman'' in the collection at the
Dolmabahçe Palace Dolmabahçe Palace ( tr, Dolmabahçe Sarayı, ) located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European coast of the Bosporus strait, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 t ...
, and ''Children Playing Knuckbones'' in the collection of the presidential residence in Ankara.


See also

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List of Orientalist artists This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subjects may not have formed a m ...
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Orientalism In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. In particular, Orientalist p ...


References

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