The Weight of the Armenian Landscape To look at the work of Levon Kojoyan is to confront the physical reality of the Caucasus. He was not an artist of abstraction or vague sentiment; he was a painter of specific, grounded places. Born in Russia in 1924, his training under Hakob Kojoyan provided the technical foundation necessary to translate rugged terrain into lasting imagery. His legacy rests on a directness that avoids unnecessary…