Known for painting in his own post cubist style, Terzian experiments with the formation of different objects, working largely in oil. He presents his subjects as a symphony of colors and shapes and aims to express the overall dynamic in each of his paintings.

Georges Terzian was born in Marseille on March 8, 1939. Of Armenian descent, his family originally lived in Russia but moved to France before he was born.

Terzian began to draw and paint when he was very young. At fourteen his parents enrolled him in the "L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts" in Marseille. He studied there for one year but quit before completing his studies, although he continued to paint in his workshop in Sainte-Mitre, near Marseille. He...