Armenia Naïve art
Iosif Artemievich Karalyan
Tbilisi 13.12.1897 — Yerevan 24.04.1981
Iosif Artemievich Karalyan was a Soviet artist, member of the USSR Union of Artists and Honoured Artist of the Armenian SSR.
Karalyan's creative work is a kind of nostalgia for the country of childhood, which you can visit only in dreams and imagination, as it no longer exists, because childhood of every person, like his era, is unique, the unrepeatable sensations experienced, they are preserved visually only in the fine arts.
His works are kept in the Museum of Modern Art (Yerevan), National Gallery of Armenia (Yerevan), State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), Museum of Oriental Art (Moscow), home-museum of Hovhannes Tumanyan (Yerevan), the funds of the Ministry of Culture of Armenia and numerous private collections in Armenia and abroad.
1897–1981