Hratch Israelian
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Hratch Israelian born in Armenia, 1956. In 1972 he pioneered a new painting technique.
This new painting process, is a replica of technologies developed through the Industrial Revolution. Why Industrial Revolution? Because the new shapes and surfaces, that came out of the Industrial Revolution, have composed the cultural landscape of the 20th century. If we want to see the fingerprints of the 20th century culture, we have this painting technique for it. 20th century began with industrial transformations, which sparks the spirit of modernity. While the modern painting was exploring how to align itself with the dynamics of the time, painting process remained technically unexplored, throughout the century. We have to go back 600 years, to find the last technical innovations, in the history of painting. Back than, at the absence of camera and electronic communication, "Painting was the main generator of social symbols". People sow broader world through painting and thay learn how to live in it, by adopting new ideas and values. Today mass media achieves more, with more advance tools. It's armed with cameras and computers. The practical potentials of these tools, generated universal efforts and resources, in their 160 years of developments. Parallel to their practical use cameras and computers created ther own masterpieces of art. Guided by these same economic and aesthetic principals, can we reinvent the painting process? If yes, how to use our hands and the same sticky paint, to compete with magical technologies of our time? Let say we succeed, can painting regain its old power by this? Here we see, that a humble process, controlled by hands, with the use of same pain, is able to achieve great production speed, extremely low cost, unlimited size and the high quality that cameras and computers have not yet achieved in there ultimate visual images. |
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