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In more recent works, Hagopian has embraced drawing animated mannequins to shed light on the diversity of human emotion within relationships. Being devoid of cultural and individual detail, these mannequins embody universality and pave a new course in understanding essential human experiences. Both male and female, the inanimate dummies are made “living” through active gestures and interactions on the canvas. Hagopian’s still-life paintings are well-executed studies of line, color and form. The paintings are based on the harmony between the objects and artist’s innermost feelings.. While there is no human existence in any of these paintings, references to human existence quietly abound; a man’s jacket and a woman’s slip hang as if just worn, or there might be a pair of gloves on a table, imprinted with the shape of the hands of their human host… |
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