Many people think I do paint a sea, water, ocean. I don't really depict it. I depict the man, using a sea, ocean, water and other nautical imageries.
Biography
Garry Arzumanyan is an award-winning artist, who works and creates basically in surrealism genre. Mixing classic seascape with modern art, as he confess, he's just capturing what his hearth feels and what says his unconscious. The core of his creativity is a person with subconscious ideas and feelings. He use the elements of the sea to make the feelings of an intelligent being more tangible and visible.
What if it is not the sea that makes us part of the spiritual world in the easiest and most relaxed way ? Variability of clouds and sea, smooth change of color tone, penetration of sunlight, transitions of blue color from fading gray to green combined with an emotional white color react to the mentality and feelings of human characters.
The essence of surrealist painting is to convey the feelings of the subconscious. In this regard, he manage to create more clearly and sincerely comparison between his vision and reality.
From early childhood inspired by the works of Ivan Aivazovsky and Francis Bacon, Garry loves to discover people's emotions, fears, dark and light sides in his compositions.
Garry's expressive surreal seascapes substantially reflect the issues of the climate change, to which the artist tries to attract the attention of a viewer.
The Global ocean lever rise, climate change, lack of drinking water resources, these all are global issues that directly affect the life of a human being, and the artist perceives this mutual influence by analyzing and depicting in his art through the prism of individual existential dualism.
Selected awards:
1. International competition “Art of Future” , 03-2016,Minsk, Belarus, First Prize
2. Showed at the "Best of America" National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Exhibition 2016, Orleans, Cape Cod, USA
3. Showed at Dome Gallery, Mission to Seafarers Art Prize Maritime Art Awards and Exhibition 2016 ,717 Flinders str. Docklands
4. Water Exhibition Award - Focus Point Shape International Art Gallery, 2nd place award
5. LST Gallery Solo Art Competition - 1st Prize Winner, USA, September, 2022
Influences
Francis Bacon, Ivan Aivazovski
The artist at work
