" Transfiguration of Jesus " Painting

A powerful theatrical sense and an innate playfulness fill this world of wandering circuses, colorful bazaars, and artists’ lives . Mayis Mkhitaryan creates elegant court scenes with a Surrealist twist, where, for example, beautifully gowned ladies may carry on their coiffures ribboned hats containing exotic birds and fish. In 2000 Mayis become a member of the Armenian Artists Union . In 2003 Mayis become a member of the Association of creative individuals at UNESCO . One of Mayis’s artworks especially ” Dreams fairy ” is in Nicola Sarkozy’s`s collection . When Nicola Sarkozy visited to Armenia in 2011 , He get it present from All Armenian Catolicos Karekin II . Sheikh Sultan III bin Mohammed al-Qasimi who paid 8 million $ for repairing Armenian Church Haxarcin , get present one of Mayis’s artworks ” To Eternity “ from All Armenian Catolicos Karekin II . Mayis Mkhitaryan is a painter who brings to the ancient Armenian culture a new way of thinking. His paintings are a multifaceted unity of his birthplace, Tbilisi, different ethnicities, everyday life that resembles wandering circuses, Armenian theatre and artisans, colorful baths and bazaars — a culture rich with sun-burnt mountains, bent but still standing temples, priceless rock images, Bronze Age carvings and parchments. In Mkhitaryan’s canvases, all this lies behind a theatrical (and, on many occasions, grotesque) surface. Two seemingly contradictory cultures are in harmony in these paintings. The result is a unique world where man is the main actor, the principal judge, and the prime research target.