PAINTINGS OF FOUR RENOWNED ARTISTS OF ARMENIAN HERITAGE WILL BE ON EXHIBIT IN LOS ANGELES

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.10.2009 19:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Jean Carzou, Edgar Chahine, Jean Jansem, and Leon
Tutundjian are household names in the European and Armenian art
worlds. On Friday, November 13, at a special reception at Stephanie’s
Art Gallery in La Canada, CA which is celebrating its tenth anniversary
this year, their legendary artworks – oil paintings, watercolors
and drawings – will be on display. The exhibition will continue on
Saturday, November 14, and Sunday, November 15.

This is the very first time that the paintings of these four renowned
artists will be on exhibit in Los Angeles by Stephanie’s Art Gallery
which has been collecting their masterpieces over the years.

Jean Carzou born Garnik Zouloumian in Aleppo, Syria, 1907, first
started as a theater decorator in Paris, France. In 1938, more than
a hundred exhibitions of his works were organized throughout France
and abroad. His works have been included in the ballets of Roland
Petit, the French Opera, and the La Comedie Francaise. In 1949,
he was awarded the coveted Hallmark prize.

Edgar Chahine born in Venice, Italy in 1874, spent his youth in
Constantinople. Moving to Paris in 1895, his selective and honest
portrayal of the petite bourgeoisie through his prints, etchings,
drypoints and aquatints, provide a compelling portrait of an era.

Chahine is also well known for his delicate landscapes and seascapes,
reminiscent of the legendary Whistler. He is also highly regarded for
his prints of Venice. In a 1942 fire and flood, many of this artist’s
works were destroyed.

Jean Jansem, an acclaimed French artist, began drawing at a young age.

Studying at the illustrious L’Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, he was famed
for his figurative style which most often depicted women. Jansem’s
artworks are internationally known, and are part of museum collections
throughout France and the United States.

Leon Tutundjian, born in Amasia, and rendered an orphan during the
Armenian Genocide, spent his youth fleeing from city to city to escape
the atrocities. While studying at Constantinople’s School of Fine
Arts, he was sent to a Greek orphanage, then to Venice, and finally
to Paris where he became well known as an accomplished violinist and
painter. Experimenting in various styles, he became acclaimed as one of
the original surrealists of the 1920’s. Tutundjian’s still-lifes are
poignant and often disturbing visions of his buried past, reflecting
the horrors of his childhood during the Armenian Genocide.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress