This Weeks Inspiration : John Martin & Armen Gasparian
A turn of the century English Victorian artist, John Martin, who's world-building is exceptional. And the work of contemporary Armenian painter Armen Gasparian, a symbolist who intermingles landscape, figure, symbolic architecture into a magical world.
John Martin
John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator. He was celebrated for his typically vast and melodramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes. Martin’s paintings, and the prints made from them, enjoyed great success with the general public—in 1821 Thomas Lawrence referred to him as “the most popular painter of his day”.
Armen Gasparian
Gasparian was born in South Armenia, where he studied art in George Ajrapetjana’s workshop. He moved to St. Petersburg nearly two decades ago, and continues living and working there today. His works are in private collections worldwide. Gasparian has developed his own symbolic artistic language drawing from his homeland Armenia with it’s rich spiritual history.
