20րդ դարու առաջին կէսի Լիբանանի մեծագոյն գեղանկարիչներէն Մուսթաֆա Ֆարրուխ եւ հայերը
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2025
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The paper revolves around Mustafa Farroukh (1901-1957), one of the most renowned Lebanese painters of the first half of the 20th century, and his relations with the Armenians.
Basing the article on interviews with the painter’s son, the memoirs of Farroukh and his paintings, the author notes that one of Farroukh’s students at the American University of Beirut (AUB) was the renowned doctor Robert Djebedjian, who was the first to found an eye clinic in Aleppo. Farroukh had been on good terms with the Catholic Armenian bishop Aghadjanian (later Cardinal), who hosted him in the Catholic Armenian Monastery of Bzemmar, where Farroukh painted the Virgin Mary. Farroukh had befriended the renowned Lebanese architect Mardiros Altounian, who was his neighbor in Aley. During the 1950s Farroukh fell ill with pneumonia and became the patient of two AUB Armenian doctors, Yenikomshian and Yervant Djidedjian.
However, the most interesting of Farroukh’s encounters with Armenians was in 1933, when he painted “L’Arménien Errant”, The Armenian Refugee.
In analysing this watercolor, the author notes that unlike in some other paintings, Farroukh does not depict the Armenian in a wretched outfit, nor in a pitiful or a begging condition. Rather, the painter portrays the Armenian as a victim who has not lost faith in himself, is confident and determined notwithstanding the agonies and pain he has faced.
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Տագէսեան, Ա., «20րդ դարու առաջին կէսի Լիբանանի մեծագոյն գեղանկարիչներէն Մուսթաֆա Ֆարրուխ եւ հայերը», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2025, 45/1, Պէյրութ, էջ 459-467