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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:

Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian)

Title:

At the crucifix, 2001

Location:

Armenian Genocide Museum - Institute, Yerevan

Artist: Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian)
Title: At the crucifix, 2001
Location: Armenian Genocide Museum - Institute, Yerevan

In Der-Zor desert, late at night when the local Arab was trying to help save one of the Armenian families, the dying woman was begging to liberate the only daughter she had by taking her away. That girl was the mother of the artist.

Artist:

DibaSar (Dibar Asadour Apartian)

Title:

The Rescued, 2005

Location:

Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

Artist: DibaSar (Dibar Asadour Apartian)
Title: The Rescued, 2005
Location: Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

DibaSar: "The survivors of Armenian Genocide having their “Naufrages” standing, leaving their beloved ones behind. In their eyes, we see sorrow, suffering, and hope to continue to live."

Artist:

Martiros Sarian

Title:

Egyptian Masks, 1915

Location:

Martiros Sarian House-Museum, Yerevan

Artist: Martiros Sarian
Title: Egyptian Masks, 1915
Location: Martiros Sarian House-Museum, Yerevan

This work is the first response of M.Sarian on hearing about the Gret Genocide committed upon his nation. Viewing the fruits and household items, chaotically scattered on the canvas, the onlooker can discern the painter’s cry from the very heart. The Egyptian masks like history’s judges condemn the massacre of Armenians as universal tragedy.

Artist:

Minas Avetisyan

Title:

By the Walls of Aghtamar. Farewell, 1968

Location:

Alex and Marie Manougian Museum, Detroit

Artist: Minas Avetisyan
Title: By the Walls of Aghtamar. Farewell, 1968
Location: Alex and Marie Manougian Museum, Detroit

Minas Avetisyan got acquainted with the art of Archile Gorky in 1968. Deeply inspired by Gorky’s painting, Minas, with his radiant and unique colors, created the wonderful painting "At the walls of Akhtamar, Farewell" depicted Vostanis (Archile Gorky) in the center, who going through the calamity of the Genocide was mentioning the loss and pain of the Armenian land in his paintings.

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian