Tigran Vardikyan (B.1962), Once upon a time there was a royal, 2015

oil. canvas / 70 x 60 cm
Signature l.d.: 'Tigran V.'.
signature, title, size on reverse:
'Tigran Vardikyan Była sobie raz królewna 70 x 60'
inventory number: UK/tv/25/1/2020/a


ORIGIN:
creator

Tigran Vardikyan, born 1962 in Yerevan, Armenia. Painter, graphic designer, illustrator. Graduated from art high school and studied at the Faculty of Art Education at the Pedagogical Academy in Yerevan. Since 1991 he has lived in Poland, currently in Bielsko-Biala. He works in painting, satirical drawing, book and newspaper illustration. The artist's orbit of interest also includes designing computer games and toys. He has worked with Bielsk animation studios in the production of decorations and animation of cartoon characters. For more than 15 years he was associated with the editorial board of Dziennik Zachodni, where he became famous as a great caricaturist and author of satirical drawings. Currently, he has devoted himself mainly to oil painting, creating works of fantasy and surrealist themes, referring in technique to the old masters, among whom he cites Leonardo da Vinci, Velazquez and Rembrandt as models. He has had more than 30 exhibitions of satirical portraits and paintings, including in Krakow, Poznan, Katowice and Gdansk, as well as in several European countries. His works are in the Vatican collection and the collection of the former president of Poland, among others.

'I paint my visions, my imaginations. - Tigran Vardikyan