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Ashot (Deghdz) Hovhannisyan(Armenian, 1929 - 1997) - Ashot (Deghdz) Hovhannisyan(Armenian, 1929 - 1997), ”Evening in the May village”, oil on cardboard, signed and dated 1980 on reverse, 30 x 47 cm. Notes Ashot Hovhannisyan is one of the greatest Armenian contemporary artists. According to the painter, the color is absolute beauty which attracts a human, effects on his soul, has its measure both in nature and in the canvas. The color in the painting is not end itself, like the voice in the music, color in the painting has a notional function. Hovhannisyan is one of the rare painters who has used black and white colors as an equivalent constituent which with its contrast heightens the intensity of the surrounding sonorous colors. 1957-1964 – he studied at the Leningrad Academy of Arts, in Yu. Neprintseva. Since 1970 – member of the Union of Artists of Armenia. 1977 – participated in the exhibition “Works by 50 artists of Soviet Armenia”, Paris. 1978 – participated in an exhibition of modern Armenian artists, organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. 1982 – participated in the exhibition “Armenian painting and graphics”, Budapest. 1984 – participated in the exhibition “Art of Soviet genocide”, Berlin. 1990 – received the title of Honored Artist of Armenia. 1992 – participated in the exhibition of a private collection, London. 1995 – participated in an exhibition in Bochum, Germany. 1996 – for his film “Disaster” was awarded the I prize at the exhibition-contest dedicated to the World Congress, organized by the UN Development Programe.