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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:

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:

Teni Vardanyan

Title:

Holy Mass, 2003

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Teni Vardanyan
Title: Holy Mass, 2003
Location: Artist's Collection

Teni Vardanyan: "This painting is dedicated to a loss of a very close person to me. I depicted the Holy Mass in the memory of this person. But the "Holy Mass" is never done only for one person, that is why I dedicated this artwork to the Armenian Genocide."

Artist:

Marie Adamian

Title:

Black and White, 2012

Location:

Private Collection

Artist: Marie Adamian
Title: Black and White, 2012
Location: Private Collection

Marie Adamian: "The tree of life, the fruit of which gives eternal life, according to the Bible, is depicted in the symbolic contrast. The “Black and White” title of the artwork symbolizes the void, pressure, depression of the black color on the one hand and the innocence, the idea of unity and wholeness of the white on the other hand, which is typical to the tragic centennial history of the Armenian nation."

Artist:

Hamuz (Hamazasp Mkitaryan)

Title:

The Survivors, 2015

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Hamuz (Hamazasp Mkitaryan)
Title: The Survivors, 2015
Location: Artist's Collection

Hamuz: "Armenian refugees coving at the falling cross-stone and their faith. The salvation of the Armenian nation is in our faith and language."

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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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