What is Arthur Sarkissian?
{{Infobox Artist | name = Arthur Sarkissian | image = Arthur Sarkissan Los Angeles (cropped).jpg | image_size = 160px | caption = Arthur Sarkissian, 2009 from solo exhibition | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|5|11|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Yerevan]], [[Armenia]] | nationality = Armenian | field = [[Painting]] | movement = Post Modernism | works = ''Hurly-burly in the Museum'' (2006)<ref>{{cite book|title=Art'owr Sargsyan|author=Arthur Sarkissian|publisher=Tigran Mets|location=Yerevan|year=2006|isbn=99941-0-173-0|page=85|language=hy, ru}}</ref><br>''One yellow vertical.(2009)'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arthursarkissian.com/Paintings/Latest_Paintings/17.html|title=One yellow vertical.2009 oil on canvas,80x120cm|work=Arthur Sarkissian|access-date=2009-08-25|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304224347/http://arthursarkissian.com/Paintings/Latest_Paintings/17.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> | patrons = | awards = }} '''Arthur Sarkissian''' (born 11 May 1960) is an [[Armenians|Armenian]] artist and painter.<ref>{{cite book|title=Armenian Palette – New Generation|author=Henrik Igityan|publisher=Tigran Metz Publishing House|location=Yerevan|year=2005|language=en|isbn=99941-0-140-4|pages=138–145}}</ref> He is one of the top twelve artists working now in Armenia.<ref name=mixtour>{{cite web|url=http://www.mixtour.am/en/VisitingArmenia/ArmeniaInBrief/category24/|title=Armenian Culture|work=Mixtour|year=2006–2009|access-date=2009-08-26|archive-date=2009-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091105010757/http://www.mixtour.am/en/VisitingArmenia/ArmeniaInBrief/category24/|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Biography == Sarkissian was born in 1960 in [[Gyumri]], Armenia and went to the School of Fine Arts there in 1977, then the Armenian Pedagogical University (Drawing) in 1989.<ref name=tigran>{{cite book|title=Art'owr Sargsyan|author=Arthur Sarkissian|publisher=Tigran Mets|location=Yerevan|year=2006|isbn=99941-0-173-0|pa