[3][4] Throughout his life, Smbatyan's art focused on themes of the destiny of Armenian people and his national identity.

Smbatyan's art in the 1950s and 1960s is characterized by authentic representations of objects through nature, life and people, adhering to forms of high realism ("Makuyk" 1954, "The sailor Nikolay Blokhin", 1954, "Ian Paulianki", 1959, portraits).

Smbatyan's diary entries from the 1970s reveal that he was concerned with the exploration of color and form in his art.

Other architonic coatings, achieving an apocryphal level where the artist exposes spirited characters and objects, vital in everyone, both indigenous and common to all mankind.

On the other hand, the inner world is resuscitated and made viable by the robust power of potential individuality, represented as a whole image due to the brilliance and energy of an artist named Karen Smbatyan, who has acquired the gifts of nature so abundantly.