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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.

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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:

Armenia (Հայաստան, Hayasdan), 2015

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Jackie Kazarian
Title: Armenia (Հայաստան, Hayasdan), 2015
Location: Artist's Collection

Jackie Kazarian: "Armenia celebrates the history, cultural vitality and endurance of the Armenian people. It is part of my “Project 1915”, a project commemorating the victims and survivors of the Armenian Genocide."

Artist:

Arthur Sarkissian

Title:

8 Image Lines, 2013

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Arthur Sarkissian
Title: 8 Image Lines, 2013
Location: Artist's Collection

Arthur Sarkissian: "Art is a multilayered game of mind and soul. and the best way to justify the existence of the individual. Art is an opportunity for me to reevaluate and reanimate the old and the new, the chronology and the contemporary. In this painting I wanted to create a symbolic poem through the old and new images, bridges of the sculpures of the cities."

Artist:

Rouben Adalian

Title:

Maelstrom of Death, 1974

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Rouben Adalian
Title: Maelstrom of Death, 1974
Location: Artist's Collection

Shahen Khachatryan (Art critic): "The most typical feature of the variety of artistic expression of Ruben Adalyan’s works is the acute, influential line drawing which rings in tremendous power in the “Death Whirlpool” work dedicated to the Genocide."

Artist:

Hovhannes Zardarian

Title:

Armenians Exiled Towards Ararat, 1975

Location:

Artist's Family Collection

Artist: Hovhannes Zardarian
Title: Armenians Exiled Towards Ararat, 1975
Location: Artist's Family Collection

Hovhannes Zardayan was born in 1918 in kars (Western Armenia). During the Genocide, the Zardaryans takes the exile path as well and the emotions connected to the lost motherland was reflected in the "The Exile of the Armenians to Ararat" canvas. Hovhannes Zardaryan was an artists of free soul. He used to say "Everybody has his own dream. The dream begins with the birth and something makes the human say something. The most important thing is get the word heard. It’s a big happiness when you are able to express your feeling on a canvas."

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian