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:
Stepan Andranikyan
Title:
Siamanto, 2004
Location:
Artist's Collection
Artist: Stepan Andranikyan
Title: Siamanto, 2004
Location: Artist's Collection
Stepan Andranikyan depicted The western Armenian poet Siamanto as symbolically and romantically as the poetry of the poet.

The poet of rich imagination and subtle senses sings for bloody destiny of the sons of the country creating the atmosphere of startling moods. But Siamanto’s creations along with the tragic images, has optimistic content as well. Describing the tragic horrors of the Armenian nation subjected to atrocities by the barbaric Turks, Siamanto thickened the appeal to the son of Armenia for avenge and liberation struggle, bringing hope for life and existence, dignity and justice, light and beauty. Siamanto’s creation is a national phenomenon, but thanks to that it has a universal content. He sang gracefully about the tragedy of little extinguishing nation in the imperialistic world, spreading hatred towards any kind of violence.

In 1915 he was among the group, not far from Ankara in the canyon, Turkish barbarians were violently torturing them with weapons, pickaxes, stones and axes. They say that the next day the Turkish Bashibozuks were walking along the streets of Ankara wearing the national costumes of the Armenian intelligentsia.
Artist:
Seeroon Yeretzian
Title:
If I Was in Adana, 1990
Location:
Private Collection
Artist: Seeroon Yeretzian
Title: If I Was in Adana, 1990
Location: Private Collection
Seeroon Yeretzian: "If the Genocide never happened, most likely this would be my family portrait - me, my husband and my son."
Artist:
Ararat Sarkissian
Title:
Earth (Image VIII), 2003
Location:
Artist's Collection
Artist: Ararat Sarkissian
Title: Earth (Image VIII), 2003
Location: Artist's Collection
In Sarkissian’s landscapes, nature, manifesting itself in the mysterious appearance of runes, elicits in the spectator an irrepressible desire to decipher the imagery. What is presented to us is not a puzzle but rather a miracle, at which we gaze in a trance-like state, losing ourselves in the experience and dissolving our ego.
Artist:
Hrant Tadevosyan
Title:
Disaster, 1999
Location:
Artist's Collection
Artist: Hrant Tadevosyan
Title: Disaster, 1999
Location: Artist's Collection
This is scream of soul, that the artist is trying to turn to the world though the face of the screaming man. "SOS… SOS… Hear, see what is happening, have an eye to see, an ear to hear…"
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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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