Între lumi, pe pânză: Călătoria artistică a lui Davit Musayelyan    

On January 22, 2025, an individual exhibition and sale of paintings by artist Davit Musayelyan opened at the “Pyunik” gallery located at 3/1 Buzand Street in Yerevan, Armenia. 19 paintings from 2023-2024 are on display at the gallery.Musayelyan is from the village of Arjis in the Noyemberyan region of Tavush. He has been painting since childhood but strengthened his artistic knowledge a decade ago, after enrolling at Panos Terlemezian Yerevan State College of Fine Arts in 2015. After a break to complete his military service, he graduated and was admitted to the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia, where he is currently a third year student in the department of painting. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Musayelyan is inspired by Armenian artists such as Martiros Saryan, Hakob Hakobyan and Minas Avetisyan. His creative journey was greatly influenced by Davit Davtyan, who taught him in his first year at Terlemezyan and laid the foundation for the development of his creative growth and professional skills. This slideshow requires JavaScript. At the opening of his individual exhibition, Musayelyan shared with the Weekly, “It’s hard for me to single out a specific genre in which I paint, so I’ll mention a few. My art blends surrealism, realism and abstraction, and I try to combine each of them. I love to do sketches in nature, so some of my canvases depict the landscapes of my native village, because I grew up there, and every scene from that place is very dear to me.” This slideshow requires JavaScript. The artist loves all of his works but there are canvases that he feels especially deeply. For example, the painting “Debed Gorge” was created on-site, depicting his birthplace and its precious memories. Musayelyan also loves his smaller canvases depicting the landscapes of his native village. The houses in those paintings have their own unique stories.  This slideshow requires JavaScript. Musayelyan also highlighted another canvas called “Flight,” which was his graduation work from college. It explores the importance of bees in nature and pollination. The painting has a central message — that the bee carries human life, because without it, nature wouldn’t be pollinated, and if nature didn’t exist, humanity wouldn’t survive. The painting also depicts the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, which apply to both humans and bees. Davit MusayelyanMusayelyan says he will never abandon painting. “If you don’t love art, you can’t understand its depth and content. I approach my art with love — the most important thing in life is love,” he said. In a conversation with the Weekly, Garik Manukyan, a lecturer in the department of painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia and a painter himself, also spoke about the artist: “Davit is an introverted person, not talkative, but he is a very intelligent young man. He is already a well-formed artist, and his art is characterized by an interesting way of thinkin