Ashot Melkonian

Who is Ashot Melkonian?

Ashot Melkonian was an Armenian artist associated with Neorealistic artistic style and Honorary Artist of the Republic of Armenia. He mainly devoted himself to landscape and portraits painting, as well as murals. He is one of the founders of Neorealism in Armenian art. Art critic Shahen Khachatrian referred to Melkonian as "an artist of the generation of the 1960s that provided a new impetus to the development of Armenian art. Reality is a characteristic feature of Ashot's art". Honorary artist of Armenia Hakob Hakobian referring to Melkonian wrote "a brilliant composer of scenes, an author of exquisite portraits and landscapes, a maseter of gentlest and subtlest painting ... Melkonian is the pride of our painting school." According to art critic L.S. Zinger, Melkonian's art is "a mix of humanistic tradition and his armenian outlook."