Combining the dreamlike imagery with the realistic and surrealistic elements and the thought-provoking visuals, Armen Hunanyan’s modern artwork blends fantasy and the subconscious into colorful paintings that question time and space via his signature unique perspective.
Combining the dreamlike imagery with the realistic and surrealistic elements and the thought-provoking visuals, Armen Hunanyan’s modern artwork blends fantasy and the subconscious into colorful paintings that question time and space via his signature unique perspective.
Born in Armenia on December 11th 1966 and now residing in Los Angeles California from 1991. Armen Hunanyan was technically trained as a classical artist, studying in traditional art schools at a young age, and after mastering the lessons in Art University in Yerevan Armenia from 1987-1991. Armen Hunanyan began painting at age 5. His art has been exhibited around the world, and his first exhibition premiered in Warsaw, Poland at the age of 12. His works have been shown in Moscow,
St. Petersburg, Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York, Paris, Miami, Munich, Toronto and many other cities.
He quickly established his original style now recognized around the world.
Three distinctive factors distinguish his artwork: the formation of his own blend of paints and colors mixed personally by the artist, his expressed modern symbolism embodying life beyond our realistic imagination; and his completely original brushstrokes which can only be replicated by the artist himself.
“My art is an expression of my very personal vision of nature’s unique beauty,” Armen Hunanyan says. “Rather than imitating the look of nature, I see to recreate its beauty and power through an extensive use of symbolic and realistic images with painting techniques. The symbols that I use are both universal as well as personal. Whether it is a still life, flowers, chess, trees or figurative art, my images convey nature’s regenerative possibilities and its eternal capacity for change.”
Armen Hunanyan’s works feature vertical positioning and the appearance of objects, consisting of symbolic meanings and the suggestion of realistic surrealism and sacred geometry.
“The emerging and dissolving shapes in stalactite-like depths stir up complex associations in the viewer’s sensual, psychic and imaginative mind.” The unique effects of the images are accentuated by inner luminosity, the reflection of light arising from the surface of the paintings.
These powerful feelings are evident in Armen Hunanyan’s masterworks ranging from Horizon of Life, Still Life Of Our World, a multi-dimensional, geometric pattern of classical and modern images contained within, and yet bursting from, a cube, a pyramid and a circle, surrounded by suggestions of infinity and light; and Geometry of Love, featuring a classic nude in profile resting on geometric shapes highlighted by still paintings of fruit, painted in sensuous detail.
Themes of nature, cosmic infinity, figurative compositions, fantasy and quiet magic are woven into the artwork of each Armen Hunanyan’s masterwork.
Like Norman Rockwell, Seuss personally created every rough sketch, preliminary drawing, final line drawing and finished work for each page of every project he illustrated. Despite the technical and budgetary limitations of color printing during the early and mid-twentieth century, Dr. Seuss the artist was meticulous about color selection. He created specially numbered color charts and elaborate color call-outs to precisely accomplish his vision for each book. Saturated reds and blues, for example, were carefully chosen for The Cat in the Hat to attract and maintain the visual attention of a six-year-old audience. By the time Seuss’s book career took off, sharp draftsman skills were evident in drawings. His ability to move a storyline ahead via illustrations filled with tension, movement and color became a hallmark component of his work, and the surreal images that unfolded over six decades became the catalyst for a humorous and inspired learning experience.
Artist Leo Rijn, the inaugural sculptor for the Dr. Seuss Tribute Collection I, was selected to launch this project due to his prized work with some of today’s top talent in the world of film, entertainment and the visual arts (including Tim Burton, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg). Rijn has been identified as one of today’s brightest sculpting talents because of his ability to breathe life into the written word and successfully transform two-dimensional ideas into three-dimensional works of art. Universal Studios commissioned Leo to develop and oversee the creation of numerous maquette scale models for the Monumental Dr. Seuss Sculptures at Seuss Landing in Orlando, Florida. Leo was instrumental in the art direction for many of the sculpted characters and buildings now on display at this permanent Seuss attraction. His strikingly accurate Seuss works embody a masterful and intuitive Seussian sensibility, establishing him as a leading talent in interpretive sculpting.
Seuss embarked on an ingenious project in the early 1930s as he evolved from two-dimensional artworks to three-dimensional sculptures. What was most unusual for these mixed-media sculptures was the use of real animal parts including beaks, antlers and horns from deceased Forest Park Zoo animals where Seuss’s father was superintendent. Unorthodox Collection of Taxidermy was born in a cramped New York apartment and included a menagerie of inventive creatures with names like the “Two Horned Drouberhannis,” “Andulovian Grackler,” and “Semi-Normal Green-Lidded Fawn.” Shortly after Seuss created this unique collection of artworks, Look Magazine dubbed Seuss “The World’s Most Eminent Authority on Unheard-Of Animals.” To this day, Seuss’s Unorthodox Collection of Taxidermy remains as some of the finest examples of his inventive and multi-dimensional creativity.
Illustrator by day, surrealist by night, Seuss created a body of irrepressible work that redefines this American icon as an iconographic American artist. Yet, the Secret Art often shows a side of the artist that most readers, familiar with him through his classic children’s books, have never seen. This collection, created over a period of more than 60 years, encompasses the entirety of Seuss’s multi-dimensional talent. The artistic golden thread highlighted throughout this collection is apparent in each wildly imaginative and surreal Secret Art image. The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss is an inimitable collection of artworks created at night for his own personal enjoyment. These works were rarely, if ever, exhibited during his lifetime and provide a deeper glimpse into the art and life of this celebrated American Icon.
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