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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:

Jackie Kazarian

Title:

Love Lies Bleeding #5, 1995

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Jackie Kazarian
Title: Love Lies Bleeding #5, 1995
Location: Artist's Collection

In 1996, Kazarian created large-scale wallpapers (not shown) in memory of her grandparents, Elmas, Mariam and Abram, who survived the Armenian Genocide. These are preparatory studies for the larger wallpapers.

Artist:

Meruzhan Khachatryan

Title:

Unexpected Spring, 2014

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Meruzhan Khachatryan
Title: Unexpected Spring, 2014
Location: Artist's Collection

Meruzhan Khachatryan: "The painting was created with the idea of how naive and shortsighted we used to be when we didn’t even realize the obvious evil plan and implementation of the extermination of Armenians given the prehistory full of similar examples. And on the contrary, thank God that we have survived and we will survive."

Artist:

Gerardo Orakian

Title:

Yeghern (Genocide), 1947

Location:

National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Artist: Gerardo Orakian
Title: Yeghern (Genocide), 1947
Location: National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Zhirayn Oragyan is enlisted among the artists who survived the Genocide. The canvases of the Armenian artist surviving the Genocide directly and indirectly express the memories of his childhood full of sadness, loneliness, grief, anguish and cherished dreams of seeing the motherland again. The master of expressionism Oragyan’s Yeghern(Genocide) canvas is the carrier of the expressive reflection of the Armenian mourning. An Italian art critic mentioned Oragyan as "Mysterious man, an artist of unusual nature".

Artist:

Sargis Galendz

Title:

..15, 2014

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Sargis Galendz
Title: ..15, 2014
Location: Artist's Collection

Sargis Galendz: "Our ancestors are not yet buried in Der-Zor. The Genocide is an ongoing process and many Genocides took place even before the Armenian Genocide. This painting is about Genocide in general that ever happened. This is my tribute to my ancestors. They say that it hass become quiet a cruel painting, but the Genocide in a cruel process, you cannot depict it all in subtle words."

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian