In the article the subject of consideration is the aesthetics of paradox in the dramatic writings of Aghasi Ayvazyan. The figurative constructions of the considered plays are based on paradoxical conclusions․ They are considered using an interdisciplinary approach – philosophical and literary methodologies, theoretical research, with an ideological and thematic focus, with the identification of chronotopic paradoxes․ The modern Armenian playwright turns to paradoxical images to pose problems of a national character, human problems, problems of love and gender, life and death. The paradoxical images of the plays are characterized by the playing out of false and true, simple and complex, sound and silence and other opposite qualities, the combination of extreme states, caused by a change in the angle of view, their identification and shifting, various perceptions of the same phenomenon, sophisms and oxymorons․These methods of constructing an artistic image underlie the aesthetics of the Ayvazyan paradox, which is perceived and evaluated in the article as a phenomenon inherent in literary thinking of transitional times, attempts to comprehend man and the world, in the ideological and aesthetic system of postmodernism.Ayvazyans dramatic works with a systematic approach are being studied for the first time from the point of view of the aesthetics of the paradox, and this provides an opportunity to evaluate them in a new way. Consideration of individual aspects of the ideological and aesthetic system of postmodernism, as well as the interdisciplinary nature of the article are signs of its relevance.

KeywordsAyvazyan plays paradox aesthetics interdisciplinary chronotopic postmodernism

This article examines the relationship between literature and painting in Julian Barnes collection of essays, Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. Different types of art and literature, as a branch of art, sometimes appear in inextricable relationships, where the boundaries of imagination and reality have various manifestations. In this collection of essays, Barnes examines the works of various artists, highlights their value, presents the role of the reader, viewer, and sitter within the text-painting interaction, where painting turns into text, and text into image.

KeywordsKeywords: art sitter viewer imagination play Olympia painting ekphrasis.

This article examines the relationship between literature and painting in Julian Barnes collection of essays, Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. Different types of art and literature, as a branch of art, sometimes appear in inextricable relationships, where the boundaries of imagination and reality have various manifestations. In this collection of essays, Barnes examines the works of various artists, highlights their value, presents the role of the reader, viewer, and sitter within the text-painting interaction, where painting turns into text, and text into image.

KeywordsKeywords: art sitter viewer imagination play Olympia painting ekphrasis.

This article examines the relationship between literature and painting in Julian Barnes collection of essays, Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. Different types of art and literature, as a branch of art, sometimes appear in inextricable relationships, where the boundaries of imagination and reality have various manifestations. In this collection of essays, Barnes examines the works of various artists, highlights their value, presents the role of the reader, viewer, and sitter within the text-painting interaction, where painting turns into text, and text into image.

KeywordsKeywords: art sitter viewer imagination play Olympia painting ekphrasis.