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ROZITA ALIKHANOVA: ARMENIAN ARTIST FROM TBILISI SELECTED TO STUDY IN U.S.
Marine Madatyan
hetq
19:04, September 13, 2012
- Rozita, Rozita?
- Yes, Elvina.
- This morning a small bird brought me the news that you have a new
landscape painting. Was the bird correct?
At first Rozita was taken aback. Smiling, the girl then ducked the
guess made by her neighbor. As quickly as she appeared, Rozita
disappeared in one of the squat old buildings in the Havlabar
neighborhood of Tbilisi. We continued to walk with her through the
streets.
The paintings of this 20 year-old are greatly anticipated by all who
know her.
Rozita Alikhanova is a fourth year student at the Tbilisi College of
the Arts and Humanities.
She's one of the three students who have been selected to spend the
current academic year studying in the United States.
Violetta Alikhanova knows exactly how her grand-daughter has reached
such success - "She paints day and night."
Rozita confides that sometimes she'll stay up all night just to finish
a painting to her liking.
The girls says that while she also wants to work in order to help
out with the $2,000 tuition, it wouldn't allow her ample time to paint.
Flora, the young artist's mother, says Rozita's painting comes first,
even though the family could use the extra money.
The first critics of Rozita's art are the family members themselves.
The girl's two uncles and their families live in the same courtyard.
They stopped their daily chores to organize an impromptu art exhibit,
hanging the wool art pieces on the clothesline for all to see.
Rozita learnt the technique at the college. "It's called "kecha",
says Violetta, remembering the old Armenian term for painting on wool.
Rozita has improvised by using oil paints.
Flora points to one of her favorites. "I really like this one ," she
says. "My daughter doesn't study painting separately in school. She
creates what she feels."
Spotting a painting that Rozita made of an Armenian church, I figured
she's been to Armenia.
"I've never visited Armenia. I saw the church in a photo and then
painted it with oils," says Rozita.
Rozita doesn't speak Armenian and understands very little. Her mother,
Flora, understands Armenian but was speaking Russian. Grandma Violetta
both spoke and understood the language.
We walked with Rozita to the Hayartoun educational/cultural center,
the site of her first exhibition that recently took place.
There we met with Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan, Primate of the Armenian
Diocese in Georgia. Bishop Vazgen asked Rozita in Armenia if she
paints and the girl, in Armenian, answered "yes".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Marine Madatyan
hetq
19:04, September 13, 2012
- Rozita, Rozita?
- Yes, Elvina.
- This morning a small bird brought me the news that you have a new
landscape painting. Was the bird correct?
At first Rozita was taken aback. Smiling, the girl then ducked the
guess made by her neighbor. As quickly as she appeared, Rozita
disappeared in one of the squat old buildings in the Havlabar
neighborhood of Tbilisi. We continued to walk with her through the
streets.
The paintings of this 20 year-old are greatly anticipated by all who
know her.
Rozita Alikhanova is a fourth year student at the Tbilisi College of
the Arts and Humanities.
She's one of the three students who have been selected to spend the
current academic year studying in the United States.
Violetta Alikhanova knows exactly how her grand-daughter has reached
such success - "She paints day and night."
Rozita confides that sometimes she'll stay up all night just to finish
a painting to her liking.
The girls says that while she also wants to work in order to help
out with the $2,000 tuition, it wouldn't allow her ample time to paint.
Flora, the young artist's mother, says Rozita's painting comes first,
even though the family could use the extra money.
The first critics of Rozita's art are the family members themselves.
The girl's two uncles and their families live in the same courtyard.
They stopped their daily chores to organize an impromptu art exhibit,
hanging the wool art pieces on the clothesline for all to see.
Rozita learnt the technique at the college. "It's called "kecha",
says Violetta, remembering the old Armenian term for painting on wool.
Rozita has improvised by using oil paints.
Flora points to one of her favorites. "I really like this one ," she
says. "My daughter doesn't study painting separately in school. She
creates what she feels."
Spotting a painting that Rozita made of an Armenian church, I figured
she's been to Armenia.
"I've never visited Armenia. I saw the church in a photo and then
painted it with oils," says Rozita.
Rozita doesn't speak Armenian and understands very little. Her mother,
Flora, understands Armenian but was speaking Russian. Grandma Violetta
both spoke and understood the language.
We walked with Rozita to the Hayartoun educational/cultural center,
the site of her first exhibition that recently took place.
There we met with Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan, Primate of the Armenian
Diocese in Georgia. Bishop Vazgen asked Rozita in Armenia if she
paints and the girl, in Armenian, answered "yes".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress