people and puppets

people and puppets
shota

суббота, 11 сентября 2010 г.

the land of peace and silence


Shota Voskanyan is one of the unique modern artists of Armenia, whose art lighted up with sensitive relation ship of humanity.

The compositions of Shota Voskanyan are small enclosed world, where the tendency towords calmness and sensitivity are felt. They are named to illustrate theinner feelings of men soul, through which is shown surrounding world.

The beauty and idea of objects for Shota are centralizedon simple shapes, which are hidden for us, inscribed on their inner structures. The artist gives them roundness, plasticity, volume.

He is not destroying its natural structure, he is not destroying its natral integrity of objects, he is not arguing with him, he is not turning it upside down, but the shapes of his compositions attract white their material determination. The artist has a special feeling of figurative surfaces of objects, special relation towards the invoices.
Sitting, standing, nude figures radiate spiritual warmness with no sharp accentual movements. Selectid by the artist picturesque palette (on the whole all the notes of brown and gold) is a result of sunlight in a narrow spaces of his interior. Light and colour are the main means and language for his art.

Today, such are specifics of his works, in which is reflected perception and reflection of life.
Marina Stepanian
Art-critic