Grigor Khandjian

Grigor Khandjian began his career as a genre painter. His canvases and early illustrations for books by Armenian writers and poets revealed the artist's bent for lyricism and a sharp eye for love of minute detail. Already in his illustrations for Tumanian's poem Sako of Lori (1957) the master displayed temperament, expressiveness, and great skill in representing highly dramatic scenes in addition to a complete lack of shyness in rendering multifigured compositions filled with dynamism and tension. In later years Khandjian used this style to execute themes of a different inner meaning: the history of Armenia becomes the main subject matter of his work.\