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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:

Annette Gurdjian

Title:

Figure Sobbing, 1995-s

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Annette Gurdjian
Title: Figure Sobbing, 1995-s
Location: Artist's Collection

Annette Gurdjian: "The piece is painted over photographs of my father's family planting a tree at their first home in the United States after arriving from Turkey. The painting symbolizes the pain of leaving one's ancestral home juxtaposed with the symbol of setting roots in a new and different land."

Artist:

Armen Atayan

Title:

The Saviour Church, 2015

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Armen Atayan
Title: The Saviour Church, 2015
Location: Artist's Collection

The artist depicted the dilapidated church. which has seen so much pain and sufferings, but still standing in Ani’s devastations an impressionistic spirit.

Ani was the 11th capital of the historic Armenia which used to be famous as "the city of thousand and one churches". The city was founded in the 5th century. Later in centuries, Ani has been subjected to invaders attacks.As a result of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire, the inhantends were forced to migrate from their fatherland. The Ani’s devastations remained in the hands of Turks, the invaders who later on tried to wrench the Armenian history by their groundless attempts to present Ani as a part of their history country.

Artist:

Yeghishe Tadevosyan

Title:

The Musicologist Komitas, 1935

Location:

National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Artist: Yeghishe Tadevosyan
Title: The Musicologist Komitas, 1935
Location: National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

The character of the Kimotas Archimandrite is stamped as the symbol of the Armenian Genocide. Being a close friends with Kimotas Archimandrite, Yeghishe Tadevosyan wished to depict him not as a carrier of tragedy but as an embodiment of blossom: Komitas of hope and light. The artists created the character of Komitas in an impressionistic way, that is the closest to his heart, showing the glorification of his subtle and sensitive inner world.

Artist:

Carzou (Garnik Zulumian)

Title:

Scorched Land, 1978

Location:

Artist's Family Collection

Artist: Carzou (Garnik Zulumian)
Title: Scorched Land, 1978
Location: Artist's Family Collection

Shahen khachatryan (Аrt critic): "The main focus of the artist was apocalipsis and depicted the disaster of Genocide in unique style: demolished palaces, the dehumanized faces of the world, dying beauty. The artist recreated the calamity of the disaster the Armenian nation survived through his emotions."

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian