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| Local artist Vladimir Atanian has received an award in the Burbank Fine Arts Federation show at the Burbank Creative Arts Center. (Roger Wilson/News-Press) |
Artist’s vibrant use of color and design in painting lands him Juror Award in membership show.
By Joyce Rudolph
For his vibrant use of color and design, Vladimir Atanian earned a Juror Award for his oil painting “Dance of Metamorphosis,” in the Fine Arts Federation of Burbank’s Membership Show of mixed media works.
The show is taking place at the Creative Arts Center in Burbank through March 20. Members of the arts federation, a support group of the center, each enter one piece of artwork.
The Glendale resident’s winning abstract painting shows figures dancing. And while each figure resembles a person, it is made of body parts of four characters from the animal kingdom — an eagle, fish, crocodile or shark.
It’s his impression of what people’s real characters are like inside, Atanian said.
“I create this in my mind,” he said. “The figures look like men or women, but inside they look like a shark or crocodile. I show their change of character, which is more menacing.”
This mix of figures and animals reminded juror Christina Ramos of one of the art world’s greatest masters, she said.
“What originally captured my attention was the Picasso-like quality of the painting,” she said. “Upon closer observation, I was drawn to the figures, which utilized abstract shapes to create recognizable images. The vibrant use of color and energetic design kept my eye moving throughout the composition. This painting definitely made an emotional statement.”
The colors and design Atanian used was what caught the eye of Burbank Creative Arts Center gallery director Frances Santistevan.
“The painting, with its bright and bold colors, reminds one of Picasso’s cubism,” she said. “It is a great design and beautifully executed.”
In the art movement known as cubism, subjects are broken up and re-assembled, she said.
Atanian’s works include oils, acrylics and watercolors, and will be presented in an exhibition in October at the Creative Arts Center, Santistevan said.
Santistevan met the artist after she saw his artwork at the Burbank Senior Artist Colony, a senior living facility that offers residents artistic programs and workshops, Atanian said.
“I made a couple of projects for the building, three mosaic works on the facade of the building on San Fernando Road and two murals inside the building,” he said.
Atanian has been painting for 50 years. He started when he was 18 and is now 68, he said. The first 45 years of his life he painted in Russia and Armenia.
He came to the United States in 1993 and founded his art school, Atanian Art Center — which is celebrating an anniversary in June. Last year, Atanian received the city of Glendale’s Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award in art.
It’s taken him 15 years, Atanian said, but he is getting to be well known.
“When I started in 1992, it was very hard,” he said. “But now I’m very well known. I’m showing in galleries in Las Vegas, Irvine and Newport Beach.”
The show is taking place at the Creative Arts Center in Burbank through March 20. Members of the arts federation, a support group of the center, each enter one piece of artwork.
The Glendale resident’s winning abstract painting shows figures dancing. And while each figure resembles a person, it is made of body parts of four characters from the animal kingdom — an eagle, fish, crocodile or shark.
It’s his impression of what people’s real characters are like inside, Atanian said.
“I create this in my mind,” he said. “The figures look like men or women, but inside they look like a shark or crocodile. I show their change of character, which is more menacing.”
This mix of figures and animals reminded juror Christina Ramos of one of the art world’s greatest masters, she said.
“What originally captured my attention was the Picasso-like quality of the painting,” she said. “Upon closer observation, I was drawn to the figures, which utilized abstract shapes to create recognizable images. The vibrant use of color and energetic design kept my eye moving throughout the composition. This painting definitely made an emotional statement.”
The colors and design Atanian used was what caught the eye of Burbank Creative Arts Center gallery director Frances Santistevan.
“The painting, with its bright and bold colors, reminds one of Picasso’s cubism,” she said. “It is a great design and beautifully executed.”
In the art movement known as cubism, subjects are broken up and re-assembled, she said.
Atanian’s works include oils, acrylics and watercolors, and will be presented in an exhibition in October at the Creative Arts Center, Santistevan said.
Santistevan met the artist after she saw his artwork at the Burbank Senior Artist Colony, a senior living facility that offers residents artistic programs and workshops, Atanian said.
“I made a couple of projects for the building, three mosaic works on the facade of the building on San Fernando Road and two murals inside the building,” he said.
Atanian has been painting for 50 years. He started when he was 18 and is now 68, he said. The first 45 years of his life he painted in Russia and Armenia.
He came to the United States in 1993 and founded his art school, Atanian Art Center — which is celebrating an anniversary in June. Last year, Atanian received the city of Glendale’s Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award in art.
It’s taken him 15 years, Atanian said, but he is getting to be well known.
“When I started in 1992, it was very hard,” he said. “But now I’m very well known. I’m showing in galleries in Las Vegas, Irvine and Newport Beach.”
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