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The Armenian Genocide has left an irreversible trace in our history and in our spirits and the reflection of grief, yearning, hope is woven in chain in the Armenian fine arts. When human languages is powerless to express what happened in 1915, the language of art does have the power to do so. Different generations of Armenian famous artists have continuously addressed the great iniquity and the artworks dedicated to the Armenian Genocide have always had their unique places in their art. Armenian artists greatly contributed to the global acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide thought their art. Many of these works have been exhibited to public but even more of them are unknown till today.

100 years

CULTURAL GENOCIDE

Acts and measures undertaken to destroy the culture of a nation or an ethnic group is called "cultural genocide". Many facts prove that simultaneous with the massacres and deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the government of the Young Turks masterminded and implemented systematic destruction of the material testimonies of the Armenian civilization.

THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

A genocide is the organized extermination of a nation aiming to put an end to their collective existence. The extermination of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and the surrounding regions during 1915-1923 is called the Armenian Genocide. Those massacres were masterminded and perpetrated by the government of Young Turks and were later finalized by the Kemalist government.

100 arts

The anguish of the Armenian Genocide, which is being reborn with every Armenian, has its own reflection in the Armenian fine arts. Many Armenian well known artists have created artworks both in Armenia and in Diaspora that are the speaking witness of the Armenian great pain, loss and yearning. These artworks are also ode to the Armenian viable genes, will power of giving birth, living and creation. Genocide is the type of crime that does have any expiration date. Human speech is sometimes powerless in expressing those things that are possible to express only through art. These 100 artworks will continuously tell the world about the unhealed wound of the Armenian, millions of innocent victims, demolished heartlands, bowed churches, lost homeland and infinite belief. The power of art is undeniable and artworks are eternal.

Artist:

Suren Pipoyan

Title:

Exile, 1980

Location:

Artist's Family Collection

Artist: Suren Pipoyan
Title: Exile, 1980
Location: Artist's Family Collection

Suren Pipoyan’s core theme of creation was the Armenian Genocide. The "Exile" work dedicated to the theme had three initial versions but eventually ended up becoming this large work.

Artist:

Ararat Sarkissian

Title:

Earth (Image III), 2003

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Ararat Sarkissian
Title: Earth (Image III), 2003
Location: Artist's Collection

In Sarkissian’s landscapes, nature, manifesting itself in the mysterious appearance of runes, elicits in the spectator an irrepressible desire to decipher the imagery. What is presented to us is not a puzzle but rather a miracle, at which we gaze in a trance-like state, losing ourselves in the experience and dissolving our ego.

Artist:

Aram Isabekyan

Title:

Feast of the Hyenas, 1989

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Aram Isabekyan
Title: Feast of the Hyenas, 1989
Location: Artist's Collection

Aram Isabekyan: "Whatever happened to the Armenian nation in 1915, where the Ottoman Turkey massacred a million and a half innocent Armenians in the Western Armenia, whatever happened in 1988 Where Soviet Azerbaijan implemented planned massacres of the Armenian nation from Sumgait city, massacres, forced displacement, looting, rape, murder… This all can never be left unexpressed in the canvases of the Armenian artists. It will be passed from generation to generation."

Artist:

Eduard Isabekyan

Title:

Rapture 1, 1941

Location:

Artist's Family Collection

Artist: Eduard Isabekyan
Title: Rapture 1, 1941
Location: Artist's Family Collection

Eduard Isabekyan is from Igdir. In 1918 the artist's family migrated and pain of the loss of his motherland was so strong that he didn’t want to go back to Igdir that had been left in the hands of the enemy. Eduard Isabekyan wrote: "You dear, didn’t you have feet to migrate with us, so that we took you to the other side of Araz as well. You remained in order to be geographical concept of "alive dead"..."

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian