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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:

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:

Minas Avetisyan

Title:

By the Walls of Aghtamar. Farewell, 1968

Location:

Alex and Marie Manougian Museum, Detroit

Artist: Minas Avetisyan
Title: By the Walls of Aghtamar. Farewell, 1968
Location: Alex and Marie Manougian Museum, Detroit

Minas Avetisyan got acquainted with the art of Archile Gorky in 1968. Deeply inspired by Gorky’s painting, Minas, with his radiant and unique colors, created the wonderful painting "At the walls of Akhtamar, Farewell" depicted Vostanis (Archile Gorky) in the center, who going through the calamity of the Genocide was mentioning the loss and pain of the Armenian land in his paintings.

Artist:

Tigran Tsitoghdzyan

Title:

Armenian Mirror, 2013

Location:

Private Collection

Artist: Tigran Tsitoghdzyan
Title: Armenian Mirror, 2013
Location: Private Collection

Tigran Tsitoghdzyan: "This painting is the mirror of Armenian society."

Artist:

Haroutiun Galentz

Title:

They Killed the Mother, 1960-s

Location:

Galentz Museum, Yerevan

Artist: Haroutiun Galentz
Title: They Killed the Mother, 1960-s
Location: Galentz Museum, Yerevan

Armen Yesayants (PhD in Art History): "In this work we see the identity of the graceless Turk in toxic yellowish-green color and in the redness of the blood a child who was the only one left. Kaneltz considered that the Genocide should not be visualized or presented. As a result, instead of big creations only small graphical works are preserved."

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian