Vazgen Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was an Armenian collagist and painter whose creative method is in line with contemporary European art. In his works, he is guided by the concept of transmuting ideas and pictorial forms no longer present into a new reality. Bazhbeuk worked with what was at hand, with materials that were found or revised. The artist’s works were neither pure painting nor pure collage, but a mixture of equal parts. He created his own “ism” in an Armenian art - painterly collage.