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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:

Sarkis Mooradyan

Title:

Komitas. Last Night, 1956

Location:

National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Artist: Sarkis Mooradyan
Title: Komitas. Last Night, 1956
Location: National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

The Armenian composer, singer, ethno musician, musicologist, archimandrite and teacher Komitas suffered a lot seeing the anguish of the Armenian nation. This characters is stamped as the symbol of the Armenian Genocide and many Armenian artists emphasized that symbol painting Komitas. Sarkis Muradyan’s Komitas dressed in red, the color of blood and the entrance of the Turkish officers with swords symbolize the upcoming bloody crime.

Artist:

Arshile Gorky

Title:

How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life, 1944

Location:

Seattle Arts Museum, Washington

Artist: Arshile Gorky
Title: How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life, 1944
Location: Seattle Arts Museum, Washington

Seattle Arts Museum. "How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life often poses more questions than it answers, serving as an eloquent touchstone for many of the pressing issues that shaped art at the time of its making."

Artist:

Eduard Isabekyan

Title:

Rapture 2, 1941

Location:

Artist's Family Collection

Artist: Eduard Isabekyan
Title: Rapture 2, 1941
Location: Artist's Family Collection

Eduard Isabekyan: "The world is full of misfortunes, if a human being doesn’t have to experience it all, but still he does. And the worst part is that one gets a great part of it… And what happened to us wasn’t a misfortune so as to stop hurting, get closed up by dust, it wasn’t a pain that you could tolerate by clenching the teeth… This is an incurable wound, the pain of brain, the anguish of soul..."

Artist:

Eduard Isabekyan

Title:

Rapture 1, 1941

Location:

Artist's Family Collection

Artist: Eduard Isabekyan
Title: Rapture 1, 1941
Location: Artist's Family Collection

Eduard Isabekyan is from Igdir. In 1918 the artist's family migrated and pain of the loss of his motherland was so strong that he didn’t want to go back to Igdir that had been left in the hands of the enemy. Eduard Isabekyan wrote: "You dear, didn’t you have feet to migrate with us, so that we took you to the other side of Araz as well. You remained in order to be geographical concept of "alive dead"..."

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian