Saryan started his artistic research aiming for an ispiration from his homeland, which he was seeing for the first time.

Even though Saryan's research was for enhancing his own creative skills, it also became significant for the 20th-century art and culture.

He was heavily influenced by the works of French artists Paul Gauguin and Henri Matisse, who also drew their inspiration from the East.

Sevan, 1903; Evening in the Garden, 1903; In the Armenian village, 1903, etc., which were highly praised in the Moscow press.

In 1915, he went to Echmiadzin to help refugees who had fled from the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

[10] His former home in Yerevan is now a museum dedicated to his work with hundreds of items on display.