"Study After Giorgione's Sleeping Venus" By Atom Hovhanesyan, Oil on Canvas

DETAILS: 30" X 48"  Oil on Canvas Original Art Work 2017 ABOUT THE ARTIST: Atom Hovhanesyan Atom Hovhanesyan was a self-taught artist that worked and lived in New York.  He was born in Armenia on August 19, 1981.  At three weeks, he and his mother traveled to Algeria, to join his father who was a Professor in Ain Taya, near the capital, Algiers.  He grew into a healthy and happy toddler, in an idyllic middle-class community on the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by his parents and sister, in a community of Soviet specialist on official assignment in Algeria.    Early in Atom’s formative years, it quickly became apparent that he was an extremely serious, sensitive, and inquisitive child.  He displayed extraordinary compassion towards his classmates and peers and often attracted the attention of other parents due to the compassion and kindness he showed to everyone.   In 1983, Atom and his family returned to Armenia, where he completed his primary and secondary education.   Atom’s childhoo