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Hratch Israelian
Artist
Hratch Israelian born in Armenia, 1956. He pioneered this Painting Process in 1972. Hratch lives and works in L.A. since 1980.
“What is Modern Art?” A question that puzzles many of us. Under the name of modern art, artists tried everything and it’s opposite; creating more questions than answers. Maybe we get our answer in the digital world? Since digital sculpting unfolds a technical renaissance around us. How about digital Painting? In digital world higher quality picture means a larger digital file and a larger digital file means slow traffic. It’s obvious that speed, size, and quality cancel each other out, even in digital images. What does all this have to do with Modern art? Modern Art came out of Modernity, and Modernity came out of technological transformations, which stands on the balance of four pillars: production speed, quality, cost, and size. Can we create the modern brush for modern painting? A brush that has the essence of Modernism? A painting process which produce maximum speed, size and quality, with minimal cost and labor? Something that cameras and computers have not yet achieved? Yes, we can. You are looking at it.
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Works from 1970s by Hratch Israelian
16 Artworks
The 20th century began with technological transformations, which sparked the spirit of modernity. While the modern painting exploring how to align itself with the dynamics of it’s time, the painting process remained technically unexplored, throughout the century.
We have to go back 600 years, to find the last technical innovations, in the history of painting. Back then, at the absence of camera and electronic communication, ‘painting was the main generator of social symbols’. People sow broader world through painting and they also learned how to live in it, by adopting new ideas and values.
Today mass media achieves more, with more advance tools. It’s armed with cameras and computers. The practical potentials of these tools generated universal efforts and resources, in their past 160 years of development.
Parallel to their practical use, cameras and computers created their own masterpieces of art.
Guided by these same economic and aesthetic principals, can we reinvent the painting process? If yes, how to use our hands and the sticky paint, to compete with magical technologies of our time? Let say, we succeed, can painting regain its old power by this?
This humble painting process, controlled by hands, with the use of same paint, can produce and synthesize, great production speed, extremely low cost, unlimited size, and high quality, that cameras and computers have not yet produced in there ultimate visual images.
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3D Models by Hratch
8 Artworks
Portrairs
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Drawings by Hratch Israelian
5 Artworks
Portraits
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Photograpy by Hratch
1 Artwork
Photos from Nature Series, Urban Series and Surrealist Series.
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