Background
His mother and father were the poets Silva Kaputikyan and Hovhannes Shiraz. Ara Shiraz was born Aramazd Karapetyan (Armenian: Արամազդ Կարապետյան) in Yerevan in 1941.
His mother and father were the poets Silva Kaputikyan and Hovhannes Shiraz. Ara Shiraz was born Aramazd Karapetyan (Armenian: Արամազդ Կարապետյան) in Yerevan in 1941.
He graduated from the Yerevan Theatre and Fine Arts Institute in 1966.
He participated in numerous young artists exhibitions in Armenia and the Soviet Union. He has taken part in the Festival of Armenian Art "From Urartu to the Present" (Paris, 1970). Shiraz is characterized by his monumental sculptural works of art such as the monuments of Baruyr Sevag (Yerevan, 1974), Yeghishe Charents (Charentsavan, 1977), Alexander Myasnikyan (Yerevan, 1980) and William Saroyan (Yerevan"s Pantheon, 1991).
In 1977 he was granted the title of Meritorious Artist of Armenia.
Shiraz" most renowned works include the busts of Pablo Picasso, Yervand Kochar, Hovhannes Shiraz and Vruir Galstian. Many of his sculptural compositions are on permanent exhibit in the Modern Art Museum of Armenia, the State Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Eastern Nations Museum of Art in Moscow.
Shiraz"s paintings and sculptures are found in many private collections throughout the world: Moscow, Saint St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Beirut, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, et cetera Shiraz is also the author of Andranik"s statue (2002).
Andranik is sitting in two horse.
They are symbolizing Western and Eastern Armenias.
From 1968 until his death in 2014 he was a member of the Artists" Union of Armenia. In 1987 he was elected the president of the Artists" Union of Armenia, and a member of the Secretariat of the Artists" Union of the United States.S.R.