Garo antreasian artist

Born in Indianapolis to Armenian immigrants fleeing the Turkish Genocide, Antreasian introduced himself to lithography using abandoned equipment at Arsenal Technical High School in He continued his self-study of the medium at the Herron Art Institute , interrupted by three years as a combat artist in the Pacific during World War II. Simultaneously he was appointed to the Herron faculty and added printmaking to the curriculum.

Antreasian was hired away from Herron in by Clinton Adams, his colleague at Tamarind, to join the faculty of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Garo antreasian artist: Garo Antreasian was a

Antreasian and Adams lured the renamed Tamarind Institute to the university in and, the next year, the two collaborated on the seminal manual for contemporary lithographers, The Tamarind Book of Lithography. In , Antreasian gave the Indianapolis Museum of Art a piece archive of his works. Antreasian made an emotional return to the land of his forebears in Turkey in , where the grace of Arabic calligraphy and Islamic architecture made an unanticipated impact on his independent prints, drawings, and paintings.

He retired from the University of New Mexico in and, with less access to the necessities of printing, turned his creative impulses almost exclusively to painting and drawing. Garo Antreasian second from right instructs Herron School of Art students in lithography, ca. You can also recommend new entries related to this topic. A product of the Indianapolis Bicentennial effort —21 , the digital Encyclopedia of Indianapolis integrates and accesses the explosion and fragmentation of knowledge created both as born-digital information and as a large new digital archive.