National Gallery of Armenia will open Gabriel Gyurjian retrospective exhibition on December 21 dedicated to the125th birth anniversary of Armenian artist Gabriel Gyurjian who is among the founders of industrial landscape genre in Armenian fine art.
The exhibition, which will run through February 15, 2019, features the selected works from the National Gallery, from Yerevan History Museum as well as from the family and private collections. The majority of them are displayed for the first time. Together with his famous works they give a comprehensive idea about the artist’s the rich legacy that has a special place in the treasury of Armenian fine art.
It is noted that Gyurjian created pictures of his birthplace Ardvin and those of fine corners of Armenia: Lake Sevan and the Sevan Island with waterside cliffs and churches; Bjni, Aparan, Goris, Yeghegnadzor, Lori, Gyumri, old and new Yerevan as well as landscapes with historical-cultural monuments endowed with the feeling of love, admiration and inner pride towards homeland. Valuable are also the thematic canvases of realistic interpretation dedicated to the rural life and labour, to the industrial construction of homeland.