Paintings by Charles Tatossian Garo

Recently aquired a few 20th cen. Impressionist paintings by Charles Tatossian Garo, a local Montreal artist who is still living and working in Montreal and is from a family of Impressionist artists. His father was was a painter and curator of the Alexandria Museum of Egypt, to his father's brother, the Armenian landscape painter Yeghiche Tatossian, who traveled to Paris and became a Post-Impressionist ( only to return to Armenia and bring the style home).

Also his son Armand Tatossian, born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1948, has been an artist since 1965, Professor of Art at Loyola College in Montreal and Concordia University.

Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, which began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). Critic Louis Leroy inadvertently coined the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.

The influence of Impressionist thought spread beyond the art world, leading to Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.

Characteristic of impressionist painting are visible brushstrokes, light colors, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, and unusual visual angles.

Impressionism also describes art done in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period.

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