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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:

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."

Artist:

Sahak Poghosyan

Title:

Silecne of My Grandmother's Eyes, 2015

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Sahak Poghosyan
Title: Silecne of My Grandmother's Eyes, 2015
Location: Artist's Collection

Sahak Poghosyan: "The project Silence of my grandmother's eyes has been a silent monologue for nearly 50 years... my paternal grandmother was the first person, who connected me with the surrounding world... in my memory I still carry the odor of my childhood, which I scented sleeping in my grandmother's embrace... it was a story with hazy colors, which I was always keen to depict…And now , presenting it, the silent sorrow of her blue eyes recovers in my memory, yelling out the hellish path of the Genocide… Surviving a real hell she never told about it ... she did not tell, but with the right of a survival she transmitted it to the ones who live ... carrying as a relic a patch of the blue sky of her lost homeland in her eyes ..."

Artist:

Paul Guiragossian

Title:

Exile, 1970

Location:

National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Artist: Paul Guiragossian
Title: Exile, 1970
Location: National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Pol Kirakosyan reflected the life and sufferings of the Armenians with his juicy palate and subtle sense of colors. "The Migration" in the canvas, where you don’t obviously see the faces of the women and children on the road, but the artists passes the restless, horrified rhythm of the bodies through big touches which makes us feel the pain and sufferings that an Armenian was experiencing on the exile road in 1915.

Artist:

Shahen Aslanyan

Title:

Der-Zor, 2010

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Shahen Aslanyan
Title: Der-Zor, 2010
Location: Artist's Collection

Shahen Aslanyan created this painting under the impression of real and sensitive survivals. The artist, visiting Der-Zor, where in 1915 the Ottoman Empire implemented the plan of extermination of the Armenian, felt all over again everything that had happened one century ago. Looking at the horizon of the crimson sunset, the artist “saw” the silhouette of the exhausted Armenian women with her starved children. This was a real vision, that got eternally depicted on the canvas of Shahen Aslanyan.

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian