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:
Hrant Tadevosyan
Title:
Disaster, 1999
Location:
Artist's Collection
Artist: Hrant Tadevosyan
Title: Disaster, 1999
Location: Artist's Collection
This is scream of soul, that the artist is trying to turn to the world though the face of the screaming man. "SOS… SOS… Hear, see what is happening, have an eye to see, an ear to hear…"
Artist:
Shahen Aslanyan
Title:
Der-Zor, 2010
Location:
Artist's Collection
Artist: Shahen Aslanyan
Title: Der-Zor, 2010
Location: Artist's Collection
Shahen Aslanyan created this painting under the impression of real and sensitive survivals. The artist, visiting Der-Zor, where in 1915 the Ottoman Empire implemented the plan of extermination of the Armenian, felt all over again everything that had happened one century ago. Looking at the horizon of the crimson sunset, the artist “saw” the silhouette of the exhausted Armenian women with her starved children. This was a real vision, that got eternally depicted on the canvas of Shahen Aslanyan.
Artist:
Kaloust Guedel
Title:
Levitation, 2003
Location:
Modern Art Museum of Yerevan
Artist: Kaloust Guedel
Title: Levitation, 2003
Location: Modern Art Museum of Yerevan
Kaloust Guedel: "As an experimental artist throughout the years I have worked in various groups. "Levitation" is part of the Genocide group, of which I had no intention of creating to begin with. For me there are two primary approaches, that can be employed: one is to decide what to do and the other to do and then to figure out what has been created. This group came to life as a free exploration of the subconscious mind. After creating it, I realized, that it was a reference to the Armenian Genocide, which happened to be part of our individual psyche. Only lately I have come to realize, that for me the creation of the Genocide group was a necessary experience and served as a therapy to be able to move forward in life. All figures in "Levitation" are self portraits."
Artist:
Armis (Armenak Misirian)
Title:
Mother, 1981
Location:
Armenian Church. Issy Les Moulineaux, Paris
Artist: Armis (Armenak Misirian)
Title: Mother, 1981
Location: Armenian Church. Issy Les Moulineaux, Paris
The death march... the veil of pain of the Armenian mothers was becoming irreversible when they were carrying the corpses of their starving children in their hands…. Armis is one of those Armenian artists who witnessed atrocities of the Armenian Genocide as well. And just like other artists who survived the Genocide, he created more that 20 canvases on the theme of Genocide and the anguish of his nation.
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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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