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Minas Avetisyan was an Armenian painter.

Background

Minas Avetisyan was born in the village of Jajur, Soviet Armenia. His mother, Sofo, was a daughter of the priest from Kars. His father, Karapet, was a smith from Mush.

Education

Imperial Academy of Arts.

Career

Avetisyan emerged as an artist at the "Exhibition of Five" in Yerevan (1962). Numerous specialists and visitors to the exhibition appreciated greatly his work. Avetisian"s method differs from the method of plain-air painting which was once widespread in Armenian art

Foreign him working form nature is no more than a preliminary stage.

The main portion of the work on the canvas was done in his studio. In 1975, Avetisyan died under the wheels of the car, which stopped off at the sidewalk.

According to some sources, he was murdered by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security).