Dovlat Gevorkovich Karanfilyan (sometimes Karanfelyan or Garanfilyan ) (born 1892, Zeytun -1951, Yerevan) - Armenian carpet weaver, restorer of carpets and fabrics, creator of a new type of decorative and applied art - portrait carpet [1] [2] [3] . Known as the "master of portrait carpet" [1]
| Dovlat Gevorkovich Karanfilyan | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Zeytun Cilicia Ottoman Empire |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
| Nationality |  Ottoman Empire |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Genre | portrait carpet |
Biography
Dovlat Karanfilyan was born in 1892 in Cilicia in the city of Zeytun [4] . There, from childhood, watching mother and aunts weave carpets, mastered the craft of carpet weaving. Having received primary education in his native city, he moved to Aleppo, worked as a weaver and restorer of ancient fabrics and carpets. From 1919 to 1923 he was a designer and stylist of carpets at the Aleppo carpet factory. At the same time he studied at the School of Fine Arts and studied oriental miniatures [4] . Already then, Karanfilyan, past the carpet craft technique, was interested in the composition of the carpet pattern. He sought to overcome the old national traditions and move from a stylistic pattern to the most approximate image of a person. That is how he created a new genre of art - a portrait carpet. In 1924, Dovlat Karanfilyan moved to Soviet Armenia, to Yerevan, where, immediately after moving to a permanent place of residence, he organized his workshop. Working in the latter, Karanfilyan, together with his students, creates a series of portrait carpets of famous figures and national heroes [5] .
Dovlat Karanfilyan died in 1951.
Portrait Carpets
Carpets by Dovlat Karanfilyan stand out for their bright and cheerful colors. In his portrait carpets, there are technical drawings of a pattern requiring mathematical precision. To create such patterns, it was necessary to make a preliminary thorough marking on the cells of the ligature and a selection of the color of the pile. All this required a lot of work, knowledge and sophisticated artistic feeling. Such carpets were distinguished by the compositional integrity of the decorative frame with the portrait, as well as the maximum portrait similarity and harmonious combination of colors. The production of such a portrait carpet took a lot of time and effort. On average, it took up to 13 months to create a carpet. Almost all carpets created by Dovlat Karanfilyan are owned by various museums of the former USSR [5] .
Notes
- β 1 2 M.V. Babenchikov. Folk decorative art of Transcaucasia and its masters. - State Architecture, 1948. - S. 69-70. - 173 p.Original text (Russian)Karanfelyan is called the "master of the portrait carpet." In essence, he is the creator of this genre, since his woven portraits laid the foundation for a whole branch of decorative art
- β Art of Dovlet Karanfelyan // Spark. - Moscow, 1940. - October 30 ( No. 30 ). Original text (Russian)woven portraits of Dovlet Karanfelyan laid the foundation for a new area of ββSoviet decorative art, a new genre was created - portrait carpet
- β E.M. Gerasimova. A.M. Bitter in the visual arts. - Science, 1969 .-- S. 236. - 579 p. Original text (Russian)Hand weaving; wool on a cotton basis. 144 X 117 (portrait - 48 X 42) - No. 4986. The signature of D. Karanjilian is engraved on the bottom right of the portrait. The ornament framing the portrait has a signature in Armenian: Karanfilyan. Admission 1940 from the Gorky Regional Museum of Local Lore. The carpet was donated to A.M. Gorky by the Council of People's Commissars of the Armenian SSR in connection with the writerβs 40-year literary career. The work was done by the prominent carpet weaving master Karanfilyan, the creator of the portrait carpet genre. A. M. Gorky handed over the carpet to the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Museum, from where it was transferred to the Moscow Museum of A. M. Gorky at his request
- β 1 2 Garo KΓΌrkman / Armenian Painters in the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1923, Volume 2.- p. 513 (988) ISBN 9759201550 , 9789759201555 Original textKARANFiLYAN, DOVLAT (1892-1951)
Karnik Stepanyan tells us in his biographical dictionary that Karanfilyan was born in Zeytun, where he received his primary education. Between 1919 and 1923 he was manager of the design department of a carpet factory in Aleppo. During the same period he also attended the School of Fine Arts, and educated himself on the subject of oriental miniatures. After several years designing carpets he went to Armenia in 1924, and executed portraits on carpets of leading figures in that country. - β 1 2 M.V. Babenchikov. Folk decorative art of Transcaucasia and its masters. - State Architecture, 1948. - S. 69-70. - 173 p.