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Although most of his early paintings are genre scenes, there is more to them than meets the eye. Hagopian’s characters may be unhappy people but their unhappiness is never paraded or emphasized. Their feelings and thoughts remain their own. Each of these paintings has a message. The unhappiness of the people portrayed is not caused just by poverty but has a psychological nature. They are people without a firm ground under their feet, people who live among strangers in a strange land and can never feel at home in a foreign country. And in each of them we can recognize the painter himself. Hagopian never painted a landscape while in Egypt. His last painting of Egyptian cycle called “A Man and the Plant,” is one of his famous paintings. He started it in Egypt and finished it in Armenia. |
Hagop Hagopian |