Karo Mkrtchyan

For much of his life Karo Mkrtchyan lived and painted outside his native USSR.

Karo Mkrtchyan was born in the Banants village, Gardman Province of Artsakh, Armenia.

Karo became a member of the Artists' Union of Armenia in 1971 and two years later, in 1973, graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Art and Drama.

Speaking to and seeing the paintings of this Armenian artist makes clear in this age of the camera image that any picture with an iota of art is more than story telling, then portraiture.

The images we see through the camera, as also via some illusionist art, are finite and temporal, those of imaginative art are timeless.-- "India Times"Armenian and foreign press wrote a lot about Karo Mkrtchyan's life and activity.