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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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:
Souren Safaryan
Title:
Beyond Ararat, 1988
Location:
Artist's Family Collection
Artist: Souren Safaryan
Title: Beyond Ararat, 1988
Location: Artist's Family Collection
Suren Safaryan touches upon the history destiny of the Armenian nation. This canvas is one of those works that compiles the elements of dynamic forms and fargeskala elements. The canvas is based on the artist’s reflections on the destiny of the Armenian nation and its future.
Artist:
Hamuz (Hamazasp Mkitaryan)
Title:
Crimera, 2015
Location:
Artist's Collection
Artist: Hamuz (Hamazasp Mkitaryan)
Title: Crimera, 2015
Location: Artist's Collection
Hamuz: "Komitas, as the living witness of the tragedy of Genocide, carries his pain in his prayers and his delirium spoken silence."
Artist:
Sergei Parajanov
Title:
Golgotha, 1979
Location:
Sergei Parajanov Museum, Yerevan
Artist: Sergei Parajanov
Title: Golgotha, 1979
Location: Sergei Parajanov Museum, Yerevan
Sergey Parajanov usually doesn't comment on his works so as each viewer could feel and describe the art on their own way. This work belongs to the series of non-described works of the master as well.
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."
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Artist: Adriana Angolian
Live Memory, 1994
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
Our Ancestors-2 (from Pixel 2 project), 2012
Artist: Kaloust Guedel
All Men are Created Alike, 2003
Artist: Zareh
Turkish Soup Made with Armenian Bones, 1998
Artist: Arthur Lazaryan
Never Again
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