1. http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/michaelasanda-2522983-martiros-saryan4/ 2. Martiros Saryan (1880 1972) was an Armenian painter, the founder of the 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 school and from 1897 to 1904 studied at the Moscow School of Arts, including in the workshops of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin. He was heavily influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin and Henri Matisse. He exhibited his works in various shows. He first visited Armenia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1901, visiting Haghpat, Shirak, Echmiadzin, Lori, Sanahin, Yerevan and Sevan. He composed his first landscapes depicting Armenia which were highly praised in the Moscow press. Recalling his own background, Saryan said, "My ancestors had come to the banks of the river Don from the Crimea, and to the Crimea from Ani, the capital of medieval Armenia. I was born into a family which followed the old patriarchal customs. There were nine children and I was the seventh." I do not know when the artist was born in me. It was probably in those days when I used to listen to my parents' stories about our mountainous, enchanted country, when I used to run as a small boy over the land around our home, and was filled with joy at the many colors of the butterflies, insects and flowers. Color, light and day- dreaming - those are what fired me".From 19261928 he lived and worked in Paris, but most works from this period were destroyed in a fire on board the boat on which he returned to the Soviet Union. From 1928 until his death, Saryan lived in Soviet Armenia. His former home in Yerevan is now a museum dedicated to his work with hundreds of items on display Martiros Saryan park, Yerevan Sculptor Levon Tokmajyan, 1986 3. Mountains 1923 Date palm 1911 4. Egyptian night 1912 5. Panther 1907 6. Bedouin with a camel 1911 7. The Spell of the Sun 1905 8. Fruit shop - 1910 Cairo 1910 9. In Persia, 1915 Yerevan 1924 10. By the sea 1908 11. At the well 1908 12. In Barfursh Persia, 1913 Old Tbilisi 1917 13. Constantinople, 1910 14. A nook of old Yerevan 1928 Evening in the Garden 1903 Worker's settlement and concrete plant, Davalu, Ararat region 1937 15. April, 1947 16. Ararat and Saint Hripsime Church, 1945 17. Ararat valley, 1945 18. Armenia, 1957 19. Armenian landscape 1934 Blossoming mountains 1905 20. Fairy Tale. Garden of Eden 1904 Bars and women 1909 21. Gathering peaches in the collective farm in Armenia 1938 22. In the springtime 23. July 1937 24. Lalvar 1952 To the spring 1909 25. The day 1917Mount Abul and passing camels 1912 26. Mount Aragats, 1925 Spring day 1929 27. View of the Gorge from the Pushkin Pass 1949 28. Village Ashnak -1957 Settlement 1932 Street and the ditch in Ashgabat 1934 29. Scene from the Train Window 1960 30. Persian house, 1913 31. Seller of greens, 1912 32. Ararat 1923 Mount Ararat 1946 Ararat 1951 33. View from the Banks of the River Araks 1954 34. Winter in Yerevan 1933 35. Yard in Yerevan, 1928 36. Collective farm of village Karindzh in the mountains Tumanyan, 1952 Mount Aragats at summer 1922 37. Mount Shamiram 1922 Midday Silence, 1924 38. Landscape with mountains 1960 Mottled landscape, 1924 39. Aragats and Mount Ara, 1922 Morning in Stavrin, 1912 40. Ararat 1958 AraratfromDvin1952 Ararat from Byurakan 1957 Ararat 1958 41. Armenia 1922 42. Armenia 1926 Armenia 1959 43. Gazelles, 1926 44. Mount Ararat 1961 Picking cotton in the Ararat valley, 1949 45. October landscape 1953 Sunny landscape, 1923 46. Ararat at spring 1945 47. Byurakan 1958 48. Notable day in the mountains 1926 Flamboyant landscape 1933 49. Cliff in the slope of Aragats 1958 50. Dvin excavations 1952 Clear day 1957 51. In Armenia - 1923 52. Evening in the mountains 1907 53. Orange Rocks 1958 View of Bjini Fortress, Armenia 1923 54. Mountains 1961 55. Red Stones 1956 56. Sound: The Armenian Jazz Band - Promenade Text & pictures: Internet Copyright: All the images belong to their authors Presentation: Sanda Foioreanu www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda