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The Art of Tachat Oganesov
Tachat Oganesov (1922-1991)
Tachat Amayakovich Oganesov was born in 1922 in the village of Nalband
in Soviet Armenia. He
spent his childhood years in Armenia and was interested in poetry, music and
art from an early age. In 1937 his father died and he and the remainder
of his family moved to Tashkent Uzbekistan. Due to the death of his father
he was forced to go to work to provide the necessities his family needed to
survive. However, during these hard times Tachat continued to pursue
his interest in art and often visited the painting studio at the House of National
Creativity.
Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941 ushering in the Great Patriotic
War and further disrupting Tachat’s artistic endeavors and it wasn’t
until 1944 that Mr. Oganesov could again focus on the first love of his life
and entered art school in Tashkent. Due to his natural ability he graduated
from the five-year program in only three years. He was then picked to
study at the prestigious Repin Art Institute in St. Petersburg. He returned
to Tashkent upon the completion of his courses in 1953.
During his career Mr. Oganesov painted hundreds of works, including landscapes
and portraits. Many of his pieces have been shown at various exhibits
throughout the Soviet Union including the All Union Shows. Among his
most significant contributions are Son (1955), The Nurse (1955), Portrait
of Borodin (1957), Evening in the Mountains (1958), Cotton
Pickers (1958), Portrait of General Krasnov (1965) and Portrait
of Portrait of the Surgeon Oskarov (1967).
Throughout his life Mr. Oganesov constantly sought to understand the use of
colors, harmony and composition that became a trademark of his work. He
shared his talent as a senior lecturer at the Ostrovskiy Theater-Art Institute
in Tashkent.
Mr. Oganesov was in the process of cataloguing the bulk of his life’s work
for a show in Tashkent when he passed away in 1991. His studio in suburban
Tashkent stands today nearly the same as at the time of his death, paintings
stacked in various stages of preparation. His daughter, who still lives
in the same artist apartment in which her father raised her, oversees the remainder
of his work.
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