Arès Antoyan
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Arès Antoyan

France • 1955

Biography

Born in 1955 in Los Angeles (French mother and American father (Armenian having emigrated to the Usa). Studied at the California Institute of Arts.
Painter active in France from 1981 and naturalized French. He exhibits in United States, Japan, and throughout Europe, he lives in France.

"The paintings of Arès Antoyan possess the splendid immodesty of women who love the violence of the desires they provoke, and seem to experience an ineffable pleasure in exhibiting their lures (...)"

- Th. Demaubus, critic

"Baudelairian Women", is the epithet applied to the Women of Arès Antoyan by the critic Pierre Bourgeade 1927 - 2009.
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