Monmartre. Sacré-Cœur. Print

As a professional full-time artist I look out at the beauty of the world and become inspired by it. In fact, all my creations are my life perception, philosophy of existence, self reflection, and a deep dialogue between my feelings, heart and soul. I love, I create because I am alive. Because I'm free. Because this freedom was my destiny since the day I was born and I can't live without painting. B I O G R A P H I E Hovhannès Haroutiounian was born in 1950 in Yerevan of Armenian parents. At the age of 6 years, he distinguished himself in painting. When he was 12 years old Hovhannes won the Grand Prix of the Jury of the International Exposition in India. In 1962 Hovhannes has began his higher fine art studies at the Fine Arts Professional College of Panos Terlémézianin in Yerevan, Armenia. In 1975 he graduated with honors from the Yerevan Fine Arts Institute with Masters degree in Fine Arts. At that time in USSR, art was inadvertently subordinated to socio-political reality. And as soon as Hovhannes graduates he discreetly creates his own artistic environment to try to escape as much as possible from the Russian aesthetic canon banishing freedom of imagination. In 1980, the city of Helsinki hosted the creations of Hovhannès Haroutiounian. This was the beginning of his artistic transition to the West. He then became a member of the Union of Painters of Armenia and Chairman of the Recruitment Jury of the Foundation of Artists-Peinters of Armenia. In 1991, Hovhannès Haroutiounian initiated and actively participated in the creation of the Atelier de l'Arménie at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris. Then, to mark the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the French Parliament in 1998, the artist created the work "24 April 2015". It was on display at the Salon d'Automne in Paris and was gifted by Dispora Arménienne de France to the French National Assembly to thank France for its position in favor for recognizing the Armenian genocide. In 2003 by request of the local religious authorities, Hovhannès Haroutiounian decorated and painted the New Armenian Church in Piatigorsk, Russia with religious frescos. In 2004 he became the founding President of the KERPAR Association of Artists and Artists of Armenia in Yerevan. In 2005 Hovhannes fully relocated to France and opened his own gallery in Paris.