Giotto (Gevorg Grigoryan)

Giotto (Gevorg Grigoryan) (1897-1976) In 1897

- was born in Tiflis.

He had to work since the age of seven.

he provided small services at a fuel oil warehouse, a barber shop, he was a courier, he distributed newspapers, he sold fruit and books at a kiosk, he was engaged in glassmaking, etc.

1916-1920

- began to visit the school of fine arts and sculpture attached to the Caucasian Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts (Tiflis), where A.

Bazhbeuk Melikyan, E.

Kochari, L.

with Gudiashvili.

In 1918

- participated in the report exhibition of school students.

In 1921

- with a group of young actors headed by Suren Khachatryan (Aram Khachatryan's brother) goes to Moscow to study.

The second course of the All-Union artistic and technical studios is accepted.

He is a member of the "Hayartun" union of artists.

In 1922

- starts giving drawing lessons in working schools.

In 1924

- is admitted to the Russian faculty of PMI named after Lenin.

In 1927

- participates in the exhibition of Tbilisi artists, the exhibition of the arts of the peoples of the USSR dedicated to the decade of the October Revolution (Moscow).

1929-1948

- participates in almost all exhibitions organized in Yerevan and Tbilisi.

In 1948

- the years of oblivion begin.

300 works of art are burned by the artist in despair and hopelessness.

1948-1957

- is dismissed from the Union of Artists of Georgia.

In 1958

- starts participating in exhibitions again.

In 1962

- thanks to the efforts of some Armenian intellectuals, he moves to Yerevan.

Articles about him began to appear in Armenian and Georgian newspapers and magazines.

In 1965

- the first solo exhibition at the Union of Artists of Armenia (Yerevan).

In 1972

- participates in the exhibition of Transcaucasia artists (Moscow).

In 1976

- died in Yerevan on the eve of his 79th birthday.

In 1980

- On November 25, Giotto's museum-studio was opened in Yerevan.

Posthumous exhibitions.

In 1980

Giotto's museum-studio (Yerevan) In 1983

- in Tbilisi, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, together with the works of his wife, the artist Diana Ukleba.

In 1985

- in Kutaisi, Moscow, other cities of the former USSR and abroad.

The works are located in Giotto's museum-studio, the Museum of Modern Art (Yerevan), the National Gallery of Armenia, and many private collections in Armenia and other countries.