Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian's portrait by Mariusz Kaldowski, Poland's great Portraitist, realised from a live sitting. Professor Pilikian's Portrait is a most original conception ... and perhaps Kadowski's masterpiece. The Artist has placed the Professor's full frontal image, within his eagle-visaged (denoting an archetypal Armenian!) profile.
The original is an oil-painting, and can be viewed by the following Internet link:
Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian has been a legendary Director of classical Greek Drama in Britain in the 1970's, while also keeping at all times his academic hat on. His scientific theories of Human Origins and evolution of culture in the mountainous landscape of the Armenian Highlands (not on the African Savannah flatlands as Darwinists have it mistakenly), and his identification of Shakespeare's Mistress (of the Sonnets) as Black African is revolutionising several social science disciplines at once.
Pilikian's "genius" was acknowledged by leading British experts in times when such a label was rarely used, if at all ...
{Britain's famous experts on Pilikian's work} :
Positively revolutionary ... a man of original genius - Hugh Cruttwell, Principal - RADA, 2 June 1972
A strong directorial hand - Michael Billington, The Times, 4 October 1968
A young director with two indispensable classical attributes of irreverence and water-diviner's instinct for the springs of drama - Irving Wardle, The Times,
2 November 1971
One of Britain's most original directors .. who never produces anything that is dull or conventional - Martin Esslin, Plays and Players, December 1976
A theatrical innovator - The Times, 27 October 1977
A cult figure - Alan Brien, Punch, 20 February 1980
Pilikian is a man of immense culture and learning .. great creative gifts .. very impressive achievements. His deep knowledge of literature and the arts, combined with his critical well-informed appreciation of the social sciences, make him pre-eminently qualified to produce work of the first quality and greatest importance - Professor C. R. Badcock, author of pioneering books in the Social Sciences.
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