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    Public bids last farewell to Ara Shiraz

    15:56, 22 March, 2014


    YEREVAN, MARCH 22, ARMENPRESS. Friends, relatives, and fans of Ara
    Shiraz bid last farewell to the prominent Armenian sculptor. The
    Armenian public came to bid last farewell to the famed artist in the
    building of the Artists' Union of Armenia on March 22. The attendants
    noted with bitter sorrow that this is a pan-national loss, as Shiraz
    left a very significant trace on the Armenian culture.

    As reports "Armenpress", the People's Painter of the Republic of
    Armenia, sculptor Levon Tokmajyan stated that Ara Shiraz was one of
    the best artists of his generation. "Shiraz had a gift from God.

    Vivid sensations, love, and motion were very characteristic of him,"
    Levon Tokmajyan underscored.

    The People's Painter of the Republic of Armenia, sculptor Ara Shiraz
    passed away aged 73. The prominent sculptor died on March 17 in the
    intensive care unit of Nairi Medical Centre. The Deputy Director of
    the Centre Lusine Aghababyan informed "Armenpress" about this. Ara
    Shiraz was taken to the hospital on February 24 in extremely grave
    condition and without consciousness.

    Ara Shiraz was an Armenian sculptor, Hovhannes Shiraz's and Silva
    Kaputikyan's son.

    Ara Shiraz was born in Yerevan in 1941. He has graduated the Yerevan
    Theatre and Fine Arts Institute in 1966. He had participated in
    numerous young artists exhibitions in Armenia and the Soviet Union.
    Since 1968 he was a member of the Artists' Union of Armenia. His works
    had been exhibited in major cities of the U.S.S.R. (Moscow, Leningrad,
    Tbilisi) as part of solo and group shows. He had taken part in the
    Festival of Armenian Art "From Urartu to the Present" (Paris, 1970).

    Ara Shiraz was characterized with his monumental sculptural works of
    art such as the monuments of Paruyr Sevag (Yerevan, 1974), Yeghishe
    Charents (Charentsavan, 1977), Alexander Miasnikyan (Yerevan, 1980),
    and William Saroyan (Yerevan's Pantheon, 1991).

    In 1979 Ara Shiraz was awarded the State Award of Armenia for his
    ornamental sculptures decorating the facade of the Dvin Hotel in
    Yerevan. In 1977 he was granted the title of Meritorious Artist of
    Armenia. In 1987 he was elected the president of the Artists' Union of
    Armenia, and a member of the Secretariat of the Artists' Union of the
    U.S.S.R.

    Ara Shiraz' most renowned works include the busts of Pablo Picasso,
    Yervand Kochar, Hovhannes Shiraz, and Vruir Galstian. Many of his
    sculptural compositions are in permanent exhibit in the Modern Art
    Museum of Armenia and the State Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan, the
    Tretyakov Gallery and the Eastern Nations Museum of Art in Moscow.

    Ara Shiraz' paintings and sculptures are found in many private
    collections throughout the world: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi,
    Yerevan, Beirut, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,
    Detroit, Montreal, etc.

    Shiraz is also the author of Andranik's statue (2002). Andranik is
    sitting in two horses. They are symbolizing Western and Eastern
    Armenias

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/754983/public-bids-last-farewell-to-ara-shiraz.html


    From: Baghdasarian
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