Painter — sculptor Yervand Kochari / 1899 — 1979/ creative heritage is one of the most interesting phenomena of modern art of the 20th century.
1923-36 In Paris, he created an art that placed his name among the greats who influenced the European Avant-Garde and the subsequent course of world fine art. Kochar is the founder of spatial painting /”Peinture dans l’espace”/. plastic — a new form of artistic expression that incorporates time as an additional fourth dimension. European artistic thought considered Kochar one of the pioneers of modern art, who in a few years transformed the ideas of modern painting and turned the world upside down…
The Armenian artist was exhibited alongside the greatest masters of the time: Picasso, Braque, Brancusi, Leger, Chirico and others. Theirs, as well as those of Duchamp, Miró, Kandinsky, Mohol — Nagy, with Delaunay in 1936. signed the Manifesto of Dimensionism, which was the harbinger of the newest aesthetic principles of the time.
In 1936 Kochar immigrated to USSR. followed by prison, creative isolation, which undoubtedly affected Kochar's creative process, but in this case the law of repulsion worked. Khrushchev's "snowmelt" of the 50s and 60s also had its role. That period was the time of genius flights of Kochar's Yerevan region, awakened hopes and the collapse of those hopes.
E. Kochar Museum was founded in 1984. Based on the maestro's studio. The art gallery occupies a part of the current museum. that area was not only a workshop, but also the only place where the artist lived for many years.
The works of the great aesthete are displayed in various museums and private collectors around the world, but only in this museum you can get a complete picture of Yervand Kochar's unique art. "Tiflisian", "Parisian", and "Yerevanian" are represented. regional paintings, graphics, sculptures and spatial paintings.
Yervand Kochar Museum organizes lectures, debates, meetings in addition to collection work, preservation and scientific study.
The museum is an important center for the study and propagation of the historical avant-garde in the region.
