Artist Biography — Armenian artist

**Arto Yuzbasiyan**   Arto Yuzbasiyan, is an Armenian family artist born in Istanbul in 1948 in Turkey, with a talented pianist mother and a textile-producing father.Although he does not play a musical instrument like the rest of his mother's family, he is interested in drawing and painting and at the age of eight he begins to take lessons from a religious painter named Ojeni Telyan. He was deeply influenced by his traditional and classic style. Later he studied under Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu for a short period of time and Mustafa Pilevneli. Nevertheless, Arto claims that his main influence was the...