National Gallery of Armenia
Fine-arts museum holding the largest Armenian painting collection anywhere, from icons to orchards.
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This guide to the National Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan opens with painter Martiros Saryan losing an argument in 1918, when he told Armenia's new government that a three-color flag could never capture the country he saw. Three years later he became the gallery's first director, hauling crates of paintings from an old Armenian college in Moscow to fill its earliest halls. The guide follows the fight he kept fighting on canvas instead, five decades spent painting orchards heavy with apricots, pomegranates and peaches. Listen for how thickly he laid the paint, like a market stall heaped with fruit.
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