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Martiros Adalian was born in 1972 in Yerevan Armenia. He started painting since he was three years old... I guess as a result of growing up amongst a whole dynasty of artists... his father, uncle, cousins are all artists. Martiros is proud to admit his strong influence from his father Raffi Adalian's, and his uncle Ruben Adalian's art. Those influences have managed to make Martiros into a strong individual and a very unique modern artist.
Adalian graduated the famed Terlemezian Art College of Yerevan after which he moved to the United States in 1990. Martiros has undertaken many odd jobs, has gone thru many hardships, has lived a peculiarly full and interesting 15 years here in the States, and never for one day has he stopped painting or creating in whatever form it be. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Russia.
Martiros creates in many different styles and mediums; graphic art, collage, assemblage art, figurative abstract, etc; and he works in series of at least 12 works of each new style until his own curiosity of growth is quenched or put to sleep. Adalian loves to work at night in a relatively silent atmosphere. His larger pieces are painted on the floor of his studio with the help of anything but brushes... mostly sweeping brooms. Within the last couple of years his flowers have turned into women in the dunes, then into human bodies on the trees, then into carcasses of animals with the humans by their side, etc.
Always curious about, and in tune with the rhythm of life, its flaws and its modern, sharp-edged manifestations, Adalian depicts images of the human body, its relationships with surroundings and its responses to the phenomena in nature. |
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