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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:

Hrachya Harutyunyan

Title:

On the Exile Path, 1965

Location:

Artist' Union of Armenia, Yerevan

Artist: Hrachya Harutyunyan
Title: On the Exile Path, 1965
Location: Artist' Union of Armenia, Yerevan

On the Exile Path: A fragment that approves the historic truth: Armenian mother in black, bearfoot, exhausted and starved, tightly carrying the infant in her hands is thinking only about one thing - how to save the life of her newborn child from sword of the Turk.

Artist:

Leon Tutundjian

Title:

Red Mask, 1930

Location:

Private Collection

Artist: Leon Tutundjian
Title: Red Mask, 1930
Location: Private Collection

Shahen Khachatryan (Аrt critic): "The direction of Surrealism seemed to be the fertile soil of the polarized soul of the artist who survived the Genocide. And whatever could be the plot of imagination, was a real image, unforgotten pain for Tutundjian. The intertwining of the symbolism and realism filled his art with supreme sensitivity and strict independence of the expressive language. The arm ripped off, the cracked brain, the hanging rope, the horrified tree reminding a human face in Tutundjian’s canvases reveal the nightmare he survived."

Artist:

Levon Kojoyan

Title:

Untitled, 1976

Location:

Artist' Union of Armenia, Yerevan

Artist: Levon Kojoyan
Title: Untitled, 1976
Location: Artist' Union of Armenia, Yerevan

Levon Kojoyan: "The white canvas is the biggest creation where the vision, feelings, life are being depicted. I started my work on the white canvas and every time I start working I remember Avetiq Isahakyan’s words:
Hey jan, motherland, how beautiful you are
You mountains lost in the fog of the skies
With you waters sweet, with you winds sweet
Only your children are in the bloody sea."

Artist:

Seeroon Yeretzian

Title:

If I Was in Adana, 1990

Location:

Private Collection

Artist: Seeroon Yeretzian
Title: If I Was in Adana, 1990
Location: Private Collection

Seeroon Yeretzian: "If the Genocide never happened, most likely this would be my family portrait - me, my husband and my son."

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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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