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.
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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:
David Yukhanyan
Title:
Half Slide of Your Dream, 2015
Location:
Private Collection
Artist: David Yukhanyan
Title: Half Slide of Your Dream, 2015
Location: Private Collection
Davit Yukhanyan: "I think that the painting will describe itself better than any words."
Artist:
Yurik Harutyunyan
Title:
Exile, 2000
Location:
Artist's Collection
Artist: Yurik Harutyunyan
Title: Exile, 2000
Location: Artist's Collection
The artist deciphers the Armenian exile through abstract images. On the one hand the black dots that symbolize the cross that the Armenian nation was carrying on their shoulders going through infernal tortures, on the other hand the sparkling light that carries the symbol of hope, faith towards the salvation. The country is not in the claws of hell, paradise is its final destination.
Artist:
Melkon Kebabjian
Title:
Ruins Unknown, 1930
Location:
National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan
Artist: Melkon Kebabjian
Title: Ruins Unknown, 1930
Location: National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan
Kebabjian’s entire art was influenced by the disaster that happened to the Western Armenians. Melkon Kebabjian’s “ruins” express not only the destruction and annihilation of the localities of the Armenian nation but also the destruction of the human’s peaceful soul.
Artist:
Leon Tutundjian
Title:
Yellow Mask, 1930
Location:
Private Collection
Artist: Leon Tutundjian
Title: Yellow Mask, 1930
Location: Private Collection
Tutunjian was born in Amasia (Western Armenia). In 1915 during the Genocide he was taken to Greece together with thousands of Armenian orphans, and in 1923 he left for Paris. In Paris Tutunjian got attracted to surrealism and he found his self-expression by adopting that direction. The “unspeakable truth” that exists in Tutundjian’s art that can possible be entirely imaginative are mere forms of expression for the artists who carries the cruel images and heartbreaking emotions of childhood that cannot be told in words.
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Artist: Adriana Angolian
Live Memory, 1994
Artist: Adriana Angolian
Gold Universe, 2016
Artist:
Khoren Der Harootian
Artist: Khoren Der Harootian
Ani (bronze), 1963
Artist:
Alexander Sadoyan
Artist: Alexander Sadoyan
Immigration
Artist:
Alexander Sadoyan
Artist: Alexander Sadoyan
Untitled
Artist: Levon Fljyan
Our Ancestors-2 (from Pixel 2 project), 2012
Artist: Kaloust Guedel
All Men are Created Alike, 2003
Artist: Zareh
Turkish Soup Made with Armenian Bones, 1998
Artist: Arthur Lazaryan
Never Again
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