Жансем

Jansem

Semerdjian Jan-Hovanes

Семерджян Жан-Новалес

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Jansem (Jan-Hovanes Semerdjian)

The roots of Jansem's deeply humanist work lie in the heritage of Bruegel, Goya and Daumier. The spiritual impulses of these artists, which came together in him, produced an art which would seem to be the conscience of his time.

In 1922, Jensem (Jan-Hovanes Semerdjian) and his family left turkey for Greece to avoid persecution, and from there went to France.

The young man studied in the Free Academies of Montparnasse and then graduated from the Higher Arts School. He began exhibiting at the Salon des Independants) in 1944.

Jansem's first works were purely national subjects, often with children and mothers as their heroes. In depicting them, he was showing us his own childhood, the anxiety which remained with him even after the end of the great troubles.

In his large figurative series "Processions" "Dancers"," Bullfight" and "Masquerade" and his illustrations to the book of Cervantes, Villon, Baudelaire, Camus, Bazin and Lorca we can see Jansem's brilliant skill.

The critics described him as the champion of outcasts, but the artist's characters, even when in a state of extreme depression, never impose their sorrow on the onlooker.

They are proud and dignified. The artist reveals an unusual, deeply philosophical word woven from trepidation, with confident drawing it spreads out like a network of blood vessels across the canvas and brings the object forward out of the depths. The colour structures of the pictures accompanies the drawing like a melody.

JANSEM (JEAN SEMERJIAN) Джансем (Жан Семерджян) Date of birth: 1920 Place of birth: Bursa (now Turkey) Scope of activity: artist,graphic 1939 graduated from the national Higest School of Decorative Arts,Paris. 1946 participant of exhibitions. One-man shows in Paris, New York, Yerevan etc. Resident of Paris. National Gallery of Armenia//http://www.gallery.am/viewauthor.php?id=5&id1=&ct_id=1&col=1&a_id=339&langid=1

Jean Jansem 20th century (художник)

Jean JANSEM b,1920 Armenian-French художник

2. Jean JANSEM b,1920 Armenian-French художник