About The Artist

e-mail: levavagyan@gmail.com Levon Avagyan was born in 1990 Yerevan, Armenia. His first steps in fine arts were made with the help of his grandfather - Armenian impressionist realist artist Gevorg Avagyan. Educated in Yerevan Academy of Fine Art 2007-2011 lead by Saro Galents. Studying heritage of old masters like Adolphe William Bouguereau, Paolo Veronese, Jacques-Louis David's, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and others, he found his own form of expression in fine arts inspired by surrealistic old generation artists Salvador Dali, Ives Tanguy, Max Ernst as well as modern artist Hans Ruedi Giger. Levon Avagyan is painting mostly in series. His first serious creations were the futuristic philosophical artworks called "Bad Dreams About The Future". After that he began a new successful series called "Waiting for..." Real objects in imaginary reality. Unexpected contacts of humans an things in culminating situations of past, present and future. Things that have earned their own soul and selfness, which has been emphasized and extraordinary evaluated by human avarice. Now he works on the new series called "Non surprising world". In this series color is very limited and paintings done with unique yellow-bluish-purplish colors. In this series you can see surrealistic, futuristic, biomechanical and science-fiction elements. Education: Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts Artist Exhibitions: "Door Between The Two Worlds", Albert & Tove Boyajyan Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia, 2010 "Art For Life", United Nations Office in Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, 2012 "Nu", Artist Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, 2014 "Republican exhibition", Artist Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, 2015 "Ignored Reality", Galentz museum, Yerevan, Armenia, 2016 Artist Statment: • I'm telling about my imaginations creating even paradoxical images, where the art is principal. • From my early years in fine art I was trying to reflect surrounding me objects thoroughly. Later I begun to hear to my inner voice and started to paint improving my form of expression. • For me the best examples are renaissance masters’ paintings. They have expressed a big love, belief and devotion. If I keep these three, maybe I can make long lasting art. • The real art in its presence assumes unique behavior. • No matter when was created the work of art, the charm is important that attracts regardless the time. From my early years in fine art I was interested in creations from the period of renaissance, baroque. I've made number of copies from old masters works and studied their techniques . Later I start to feel in my own and paint improving my unique techniques. However, for me the techniques is not the main motivation. It has to be flexible and improvable, serve as an instrument. I was always interested in how would mankind look like and what will be his lifestyle after hundreds of years, what will be the colors of their life, what problems will be finally solved and what kind of new problems will appear. Questions and answers I'm trying to symbolize by means of drawing and painting. In the new long-term series I try to show episodes from the future life where the composition is primary. But what are shown in the pictures? The mankind has reached a new development phase and continues to develop more and more coming near to the God. No wars, no religion, no governments, no money no dresses... The other forms of life slowly start to get consciousness and in their turn try to come near to the humans. The new relationship between humans and nature appear.