Martin Barooshian The Surrealist
Martin Barooshian (December 18, 1929- January 25, 2022) is an American - Armenian abstract surrealist painter and printmaker. During his 70-year career, Barooshian worked in a variety of mediums and moved between different styles. His paintings and prints dance between various artistic movements, perfectly combining elements of Symbolism, Expressionism, Dada, Romanticism, Primitive and Renaissance. Although his work does not fit easily into a single category, Barooshian considered himself a Surrealist of abstract biomorphic forms. Barooshian's mature biomorphic style emerged in the late 1950s, revealing enigmatic dreamscapes that explored a poetry of form, the connections between individuals, and humanity's place in the cosmic order.
However, Barooshian's work will always be recognized for its full visual field, incredible sense of color and compositions that create tension between organic pattern and geometric order. He often used repetitive patterns of small elements to create order and beauty in apparent chaos. He was also known as a meticulous and innovative technician, recognized for his remarkable improvements and applications of viscous printing.
Martin Barooshian was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts and studied and worked all over the world, including the United States, France, England, India and the Middle East. He completed his fourth and fifth years at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School after studying with Carl Zerbe, an expressionist painter and Boston's head of painting, and Ture Bengtz, head of the printmaking department and founder of Boston Printmakers. Richard S. Bartlett, lithographer and watercolorist.
He studied in the studios of Parisian lithographers Gaston Dorfinant and Jean Pons, and with Stanley William Hayter at his famous etching and printmaking studio, Atelier 17.
Barooshian also holds BA and MA degrees in education from Tufts University. He majored in art history at Boston University. Barooshian is also a past president of the American Society of Graphic Artists. Recognition His work is represented in the collections of several major museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, and the Addison. Gallery of American Art.
