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Arman Tateos Manookian

Arman Tateos Manookian (1904 - 1931) was active/lived in Hawaii, Rhode Island / France.  Arman Manookian is known for Modernist marine painting, murals, illustration.

The following biography is from John Seed of Hemet, California, who published much of this text in a feature article on Manookian in the November, 2001 issue of Honolulu" Magazine.

Arman Tateos Manookian is one of Hawaii's most celebrated modern artists, even though he worked there for only five years and eleven months before taking his own life at the age of 27. His works are celebrated for their bold, high-key coloring, and for his idealized portrayals of Hawaiian life and history. He is considered a pioneering Modernist even though the artist himself always insisted that his art was derived from Western Classical and Renaissance values.

Manookian, the eldest of three children, was born on May 15, 1904 in Constantinople, the troubled heart of the collapsed former Ottoman Empire. His given name, which he used until joining the U.S. Marine Corps was Tateos (Tady to his family), which is the name of one the two apostles who brought Christianity to Armenia in 35 A.   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11015 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Arman Tateos Manookian


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Magazine Illustration
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Style
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Indians, Native Americans
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • France After 1900
  • Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
Art Association
  • Honolulu Art Association
Art School
  • Rhode Island School of Design, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
  • Genre Specialty
  • Miniature Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
  • Newspaper Staff, Artist, Cartoon, Illustration, Photography, Graphics
Ethnicity of Artist
  • Armenian

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