This Armenian artist paints in oil (OIL!) even though his work looks like photographs. He started painting with oil at age five and had his first show with 100 of his paintings when he was ten, which travelled all over the world. He has lived, studied and worked all over the world and was considered a prodigy in his home country.
His work focuses mostly on people and his work reflects a photorealism to the tee. In his more recent work, he has focused on younger women and their children.
Tsitoghdzyan's work is visually coherent because all of the work has the same photorealistic, simple feel. Especially in his latest body of work, each piece is large in scale and focuses on value.
Over and over, Tsitoghdzyan uses value to create deep shadows and contrast between the background and the foreground. He also uses texture to enforce the realism of the subject's hair, etc.
THESE ARE OIL PAINTINGS!
Oil paintings!!!! Crazy. I love the old world feel of this work. Yummy.
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