Carzou: "The horrible destiny of the Armenian is also mine from the first days, when I lost my father and saw thousands of homeless people taken of Der-Zor."

Whitney Museum of American Art: "This portrait of Arshile Gorky and his mother is based on a photograph taken in Armenia in 1912, when the artist was just a child. Three years later, during the Ottoman Turk campaign of Genocide against the Armenians, Gorky, his mother, and his younger sister all survived a death march, but his mother never recovered her health. She died in 1919 from starvation. The following year, the fifteen-year-old Gorky immigrated to the United States with his sister. Gorky, however, did not simply copy the photograph, but painted a meditation on remembrance: the white apron worn by Gorky’s mother makes her appear statue-like, and other areas of the painting seem, like memory itself, unfinished and mutable. The figures’ searching gazes lend the composition psychological intensity, eliciting sympathy yet avoiding outright pathos or sentimentality."

Teni Vardanyan: "This painting is dedicated to a loss of a very close person to me. I depicted the Holy Mass in the memory of this person. But the "Holy Mass" is never done only for one person, that is why I dedicated this artwork to the Armenian Genocide."

Decorative wholeness and the rhythmic balance of the painting “work” for the length of contemplation. The width of panorama, dynamism of the painting’s platitude helps raise above yourself and the reality. There is a sense of length of the space in depth through the contrast of the multi-scaled color platitudes. The mountain, as a penetrating symbol - is a witness of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 - very similar to the motive of flood: it reaches to the almost universal scale. And this is the aesthetic viewpoint of the artist.