Recently, painter Arevik Arevshatyan presented her variations
portraying the life of a woman. The project was presented in the
“Academy” exhibition hall. Some variations including “Stories about
women, “Nothing”, “Magnetism” all portray images of flowers. The tender
and transient beauty of the flower is shown next to the woman in each
painting. The woman herself flourishes at first but then quickly wilts.
In Arevik Arevshatyan’s paintings the women don’t have facial features.
Only one of the paintings shows the woman’s face but it is hidden
behind the petals of a flower. The stories of women portrayed in the
paintings depict life as frigid and in a logical sense: First you have
the adolescent girl, then the woman who has just received her diploma,
the bride, the widow-the manly figure almost doesn’t exist in the
woman’s life. The woman-flower idea is pictured in the series of
paintings entitled “Nothing”. The top part of the flower vases and the
transient flowers seem to not go together. The woman has a
self-sufficient magnetism of a flower; she is the symbol of the link
that ties the individual with nature. Arevshatyan reminds us that sex
discrimination not only doesn’t exist in art, but also in life.
