Born S. Gemur Nakhichevan ASSR), member. CX USSR (1960), Merited. artist of the RSFSR (1975), winner of the region St. Lenin Komsomol “Eaglet” (1979). He graduated from the Yerevan fine arts. Uch-school them. F. P. Terlemezian (1954). Studied with E. Vartanian, T. Mirzoyan, G. Chubaryan, A. Sargsyan. Came in Person. in 1956. He worked as a sculptor, prop maker in Person. the Opera and ballet theatre. To this period belong the early works of A. – portraits of theatre actors. A. was elected a member of. Commission CX RSFSR “Science, space, physical culture and sport in fine art”, member. zones. exhibition Committee, member. of the Board of COSH, member. of arts. Council in Person. the Executive Committee, a delegate of the 5-th and 6-th Congress of artists of USSR, DEP. Person. of the city Council. The name A. came to prominence in the country in the late. 1950s St. Petersburg. success brought him sculpt. the composition “the virgin soil” (1958), “a Student in construction” (1958), “Rabochaya Tribuna” (1976), “Welder-climber” (1977), which participated in all-Union., vseros. and zones. exhibitions. The images of his contemporaries, working people, created by A., attracted by its plasticity. convincingly, a big EXT. energy. The ideal in art A. became creative. the person, the man with the brightly expressed. personality traits, therefore, the heroes PL. skulpt. A. are comp. and poets (Komitas, L. van Beethoven, A. S. Pushkin, E. Charents, S. A. Yesenin, Sergei Prokofiev). A. is a well – known sculptor, ed. monuments in Person. and region. Most means. monuments, created by A. in Person, – pam. Acad. I. V. Kurchatov (1986, architect. V. L. Glazyrin, V. B. Petrov, I. V. Talalay), pam. Prokofiev (2000, architect. E. V. Aleksandrov). Easel works of A. – the adherent of classical. tradition. Small in size composition of white marble – feelings. and graceful bathers and dancers – are musicality, plasticity. solution: “Mommy” (1977), “Summer” (1983), “At sunset” (1989), “the Bath” (1989), “Beauty” (1995). Such dramatic and expressive sculpt. images like “Sorrow” (1970), “catcher” (1987), “Repression” (1990). In 1989, per Person. the television Studio was filmed for TV film “Koelga – is a marble”, telling about the work of A. On the 1st person. the exhibition of the sculptor in COCH (1996) presented more than 50 easel paintings. Five sculptural. A. compositions in marble installed in the lobby of the People. drama theater. A. in 1986 was awarded the OSA. “Badge of Honor”, medal “For valiant labor”, in 1996 became a laureate of the St. im. G. Mosin (Yekaterinburg) “For his great contribution to the culture of the Urals”.
(the author L. A. Sabelfeld)
Lit.: B a th n o V L. P. the Artists of Chelyabinsk. H, 1979; L I p u s t I n A. Debut of the wizard // HF. 1986. 12 Sept.; K u d z o e V O. A. the Sculptured chronicle of the region / O. A. Kuzaev, A. S. Vaganov. H, 1989; Vartkes Avakian: Cat. CA. /Comp. L. Sabelfeld. H, 1996; O n a W e. the spirit of Harmony and form // Artist of Russia. 1997. No. 3-4.
