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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:

Martiros Sarian

Title:

Portrait of the Poet Aleksandr Tsaturian, 1915

Location:

National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Artist: Martiros Sarian
Title: Portrait of the Poet Aleksandr Tsaturian, 1915
Location: National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Black color that appeared in Sarian’s palette had manifested all the tragic of his feelings. None the less the fragile and emotional soul of the Armenian intelligentsia so deeply shocked and unprotected in this period had to revive the national culture on their native land some years later. Depicted in the background motif of fruit and a blooming branch symbolize the idea of this powerful inner potential.

Artist:

Eduard Isabekyan

Title:

Western Armenia, 1940

Location:

Artist's Family Collection

Artist: Eduard Isabekyan
Title: Western Armenia, 1940
Location: Artist's Family Collection

Eduard Isabekyan: "Memory is a very important thing. There is no other nation in the world that needs memory more than the Armenian nation. Because there is no other nation in the world that has left its property, its soil, 99% of everything owned to others. If Igdirtsis forget Igdir, Alashkertsis - Alashker, Vanetsis forget Van, Bayazettsis - Bayazets and etc If they forget that the entire nation never forgot where they are from. The Armenian needs our memory, for him to be able to own whatever his has lost, so as always to remember that he has to bring back whatever he has lost."

Artist:

Hakob Hakobian

Title:

Sorrow, 1961

Location:

National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Artist: Hakob Hakobian
Title: Sorrow, 1961
Location: National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Hakob Hakobyan created series of canvases, where the feelings of sadness and loneliness are emphasized. The "Sorrow" is one of these works that belongs to the artist's series of art dedicated to the miserable. suffering human-character who is powerless to fight the destiny. This is the sorrow of the human without homeland living far from his motherland shrouding the pain of Genocide in himself and in other generations.

Artist:

Valentin Podpomogov

Title:

Requiem, 1981

Location:

Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

Artist: Valentin Podpomogov
Title: Requiem, 1981
Location: Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

Valentin Podpomogov, who was Armenian from his mother’s side, was deeply concerned about the Armenian Genocide in 1915. As an expression of pain and anguish he created series of canvases dedicated to the Genocide, the most actual one of which is this work: Completely demolished formerly inhabited soil, where you can see the church miraculously still standing far away.
The huge bell ripped off the church and the dust still at unease after the devastation makes us feel through the 1915 all over again. But as a shine of hope and salvation, one can see the God’s light cracked from the black sky.

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shared arts

Artist:

Adriana Angolian

Artist: Adriana Angolian

Live Memory, 1994

Artist:

Adriana Angolian

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

Artist: Levon Fljyan

Our Ancestors-2 (from Pixel 2 project), 2012

Artist:

Kaloust Guedel

Artist: Kaloust Guedel

All Men are Created Alike, 2003

Artist:

Zareh

Artist: Zareh

Turkish Soup Made with Armenian Bones, 1998

Artist:

Zareh

Artist: Zareh

Artist:

Arthur Lazaryan

Artist: Arthur Lazaryan

Never Again

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