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 12.08.2010 |
| At a RA governmental meeting headed by Vice Prime Minister, Territorial Administration Minister |
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| Within the corporate strategy framework, ArmenTel has been regularly assisting cultural projects |
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| 17.05.2010 |
| The Turkish parliamentarian did not mentioned the Western Armenian in his report on endangered |
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| 07.05.2010 |
| Armenia is represented by seven musicians, while the orchestra will be conducted by renowned |
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Architecture
 Of all the arts, architecture is supreme. For the general public used to visiting museums filled with paintings of compact size easily hung by the hundreds, the priority given to architecture in the art world may seem strange. But buildings are not susceptible to display in museums, when reduced to photos or models, they seem pale next to the immediate beauty of original art works. Thus, architectural monuments are only accessible to the public by distant travel or through specialized books.
Art historians have always put architecture in a different category; they have measured the value of monuments by standards other than those appropriate to smaller decorative creations in whatever medium.
So, too, in the realm of Armenian art, architecture takes pride of place. It was the first of the arts of Armenia to be seriously studied, and to this day Armenian architecture receives more scholarly attention than all of the other arts combined. The separateness of architecture from the other arts is not due just to size, though certainly the immense mass of any building compared to other works of art is so disproportionate that no real comparison is possible, nor to the labor, in the case of architecture perforce collective, required for its creation. Because buildings are natural vehicles for decoration, they differ from other art objects by often incorporating in themselves the two most important of the other arts: painting and sculpture.
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