Hakob Hakobyan expressed the secret attack of the evil spirit on the peaceful, defenseless creature by two symbols: black cat and white dove. As it happened in 1915 when the Armenians were subjected to massacre by the Ottoman Empire, the series of these barbaric acts continue to these day, such as the murder of the famous Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink by the Turkish nationalist.

Hrant Dink said: "There are some Turkish people who don’t admit that fact that their ancestors executed Genocide. But, if we look, we’ll understand that these people leave a false impression of kind and pleasant people… However, why can’t they admit the fact of Genocide? It’s because, they know that Genocide is a bad thing and they would have never wish to do that and that’s why they can’t believe that their ancestors could have done anything like that."

Valentin Podpomogov, who was Armenian from his mother’s side, was deeply concerned about the Armenian Genocide in 1915. As an expression of pain and anguish he created series of canvases dedicated to the Genocide, the most actual one of which is this work: Completely demolished formerly inhabited soil, where you can see the church miraculously still standing far away.
The huge bell ripped off the church and the dust still at unease after the devastation makes us feel through the 1915 all over again. But as a shine of hope and salvation, one can see the God’s light cracked from the black sky.

Vardges Sureniants was deeply concerned with the cruel destiny of the Armenian nation. He depicted the cruel atrocities by the Turks, that had been taking place long before the Armenian Genocide in 1915, looks like Sureniants documented the bitter fragments of the Armenian history in the "Homeless", "The Abandoned", "Massacre of Virgin", "The Monastery of ST Hripsime" and other canvases such as the "Desecrated Shrine" painting.

Slaughter and pillage, destruction of parchment manuscripts, massacre of the virgins and Armenian priests inside the church. But despite these scenes, Sureniants symbolizes hope and faith through the rising cross stones as symbols of strong faith and salvation of the Armenian nation.

Annette Gurdjian: "The term "Starved" was a common phrase used at dinner table in the United States as word of the plight of the Armenians reached the U.S Genocide survivors told of Arabs helping them in the desert in small and meaningful ways. This painting depicts a weak survivor receiving a piece of bread from an Arab."