Marc Balakjian obituary

Award-winning artist and printmaker who resurrected the obscure medium of mezzotint, once popular for reproducing Constables and TurnersTwo months before his death at the age of 79, the artist Marc Balakjian visited Armenia for the first time to discover his cultural inheritance. His parents had fled to Lebanon from the genocide of Armenia, started by the Turks in 1915 and continued under the Soviets. The Armenian diaspora has lived with a sense of unfinished business and injustice ever since, a