Hakob Hakobyan created series of canvases, where the feelings of sadness and loneliness are emphasized. The "Sorrow" is one of these works that belongs to the artist's series of art dedicated to the miserable. suffering human-character who is powerless to fight the destiny. This is the sorrow of the human without homeland living far from his motherland shrouding the pain of Genocide in himself and in other generations.

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.

Krikor Momdjian: "Like an open book, we see on one side a photo-document in which we witness how in a barbaric way Armenians were slaughtered in 1915. I did not want to paint the image but used it as it is - an horrible evidence. When I saw this picture for the first time as a little boy, I was choked that human beings are capable of such acts. History seems repeating itself as we think about what is happening now in the middle east, not far from Anatolia, where the massacres of Christian Armenians and deportations occurred. But I believe we can change this, for the sake of future generations, by education and information in healthy thinking. showing empathy for other people and cultures to create a better world."

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.