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An oil painting featuring the Statue of Liberty surrounded by the floating heads of popular Armenian figures has been rejected by the city of Glendale.
The painting also includes Mt. Ararat and a depiction of the statue “Akhtamar”.
While one commissioner called it “a beautiful theme,” the painting failed to make it past the Arts & Culture Commission or City Council and onto a city-owned office wall — the first time that’s happened since 2000.
“It was deeply embedded in one culture, but it was not very inclusive,” said Arts Commissioner Arlette DerHovanessian at a meeting last month. “Otherwise it was a beautiful theme.”
The artist, Anita Garouni, is an Iranian immigrant with Armenian ancestry who has lived in Glendale for 15 years and wanted to donate her work. She told the commission that her painting, titled “Home,” represents the love she feels for the United States and her Armenian culture.
Commissioner Razmik Grigorian said he understood the painting was about both Garouni’s ancestral and adopted home, but he wished it was more about the latter than the former.
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