Martiros Saryan

Style: Naive Art / Primitivism; Symbolism; Socialist Realism; Expressionism; Realism;

Place: Nakhichevan-On-Don

Born: 1880

Death: 1972

Biography:

Martiros Saryan (Armenian: Մարտիրոս Սարյան Russian: Мартиро́с Сарья́н 28 February [O.S. 16 February] 1880 – 5 May 1972) was an Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting. He was born into an Armenian family in Nakhichevan-on-Don (now part of Rostov-on-Don, Russia). In 1895, aged 15, he completed the Nakhichevan s...