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Hratch Israelian was born June 7, 1956, in Yerevan, Armenia (former USSR). is an Armenian American artist, inventor and animator. In 1972, he pioneered the most efficient and democratic painting process in the art world, that produces maximum speed, size and quality, with minimal cost and labor. His work identified with Soviet Nonconformist Art. Soviet art circles considered his new method as a painting style and its significant potentials were ignored. In 1980, Israelian emigrated to the United States and the Ministry of Culture of the USSR gave official permission to Export 115 of his paintings which went through intense scrutiny for possible espionage.
The paintings Israelian created in the 1970s have been in contact with the turning points of modern history, but they remain ignored. His personal talents and skills are not in question here. Israelian’s art is about other people’s infinite imagination and hidden talents, and his job is to make the painting process easy and affordable so everyone can try. From 1996 Israelian started writing an epic poem, called "Bread and Wine.” From 2002, Israelian worked on the staging of his epic poem through 3D animation by creating all 100 characters as high-resolution digital sculptures
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