100
years
100
arts
mission
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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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.
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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:
Seeroon Yeretzian
Title:
Blooming, 1988
Location:
Private Collection
Artist: Seeroon Yeretzian
Title: Blooming, 1988
Location: Private Collection
Seeroon Yeretzian: "This canvas represents the generation(s) after the Genocide. The Genocide separated our heads (our identity) from our bodies (our homeland)."



Artist:
David Yukhanyan
Title:
Half Slide of Your Dream, 2015
Location:
Private Collection
Artist: David Yukhanyan
Title: Half Slide of Your Dream, 2015
Location: Private Collection
Davit Yukhanyan: "I think that the painting will describe itself better than any words."
Artist:
Narek Avetusyan
Title:
Interfractal Composition #2, 2008
Location:
Artist's Collection
Artist: Narek Avetusyan
Title: Interfractal Composition #2, 2008
Location: Artist's Collection
Narek Avetisyan: "Even the historical and cultural memory can subconsciously manifest itself in the time and space. The latter is in the identity of art and it’s ephemeral. The form changes and is being exposed to modification. But the form is the “body” of art for me, therefore, even the modified "body" is an identity-content-harmony in itself.

So the creativity of art can be understood as a whole system, aestheticism and theory, the wholeness of art, paradigm of composition."
Artist:
Leon Tutundjian
Title:
Red Mask, 1930
Location:
Private Collection
Artist: Leon Tutundjian
Title: Red Mask, 1930
Location: Private Collection
Shahen Khachatryan (Аrt critic): "The direction of Surrealism seemed to be the fertile soil of the polarized soul of the artist who survived the Genocide. And whatever could be the plot of imagination, was a real image, unforgotten pain for Tutundjian. The intertwining of the symbolism and realism filled his art with supreme sensitivity and strict independence of the expressive language. The arm ripped off, the cracked brain, the hanging rope, the horrified tree reminding a human face in Tutundjian’s canvases reveal the nightmare he survived."
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shared arts
Artist:
Adriana Angolian
Artist: Adriana Angolian
Live Memory, 1994
Artist:
Adriana Angolian
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
Artist: Levon Fljyan
Our Ancestors-2 (from Pixel 2 project), 2012
Artist:
Kaloust Guedel
Artist: Kaloust Guedel
All Men are Created Alike, 2003
Artist:
Zareh
Artist: Zareh
Turkish Soup Made with Armenian Bones, 1998
Artist:
Zareh
Artist: Zareh
Artist:
Arthur Lazaryan
Artist: Arthur Lazaryan
Never Again
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