WORKS BY STUDENTS OF PAINTING ACADEMY GYUMRI BRANCH DISPLAYED AT VIENNA SERAFIN PICTURE GALLERY

Noyan Tapan
May 15 2006

GYUMRI, MAY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. The students of painting department
of Gyumri branch of Painting Academy presented their works at the
exhibition held in the Austrian city of Vienna in April within the
framework of Mozart’s 250th anniversary. On those days the works were
also being displayed at the Museum of Aslamazian sisters of Gyumri. In
the pictures the students tried to depict different episodes from
Mozart’s life, as well as the period of his lifetime.

For instance, the main subject of pictures by one of the young painters
are Mozart’s music books: “I had his handwritten notes and noticed that
there are drawing elements in them,” he said. According to Hambartsum
Ghukasian, Director of Gyumri branch of Painting Academy, the whole
tour lasted 12 days and the students visited all important picture
galleries and museums of Austria. The exhibition dedicated to Mozart’s
anniversary was organized on the initiative of the Culture Department
of Vienna Mayor’s Office and UNESCO at the Serafin picture gallery of
Vienna. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Robert Mirzoyan,
representative of the Culture Department of Vienna Mayor’s Office,
the department has a long history of cooperation with Gyumri branch
of Painting Academy and of closer cooperation with the Painting
Academy itself.

Mutual visits of students and lecturers of Gyumri branch of Painting
Academy and Vienna painting academies are also planned in the future.