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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:

Sarkis Khachaturian

Title:

Exiles, 1915

Location:

National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Artist: Sarkis Khachaturian
Title: Exiles, 1915
Location: National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Sargis Khachatryan has created series of painting in the theme of the Armenian exiles. This painting belongs to those series as well. Suffered and worried faces, movement, that look as if frozen, silence and question mark is stamped on their face that is transmitted through the painting. What will be the fate of the Armenian nation.

In 1924 in Vienna that was a catalog published with the artists works where he was described as "The singer of the Armenian sorrow".

Artist:

Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian)

Title:

Funeral of My Grandfather, 1951

Location:

Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

Artist: Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian)
Title: Funeral of My Grandfather, 1951
Location: Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

Shahen Khachatryan (Art critic): "The sensitive lines of Jansem are flowing in the canvases like blood vessels and harmonizing the subtle, pale color palette, they create hyperrealistic, visual and music atmosphere. Jansem practices this principle of building the image. Exactly 50 years after the Genocide inspired "Funeral of my grandfather" painting, the master creates the "Genocide" series revealing the curtain of the history truth.

Artist:

CYB

Title:

Communion, 2015

Location:

Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

Artist: CYB
Title: Communion, 2015
Location: Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

CYB: "This work has been created dedicated to the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide centennial anniversary. The painting depicts the co-relations of consciousness, memory, rebirth of any Armenian. The preservation of the identity is the struggle of each one us."

Artist:

Simon Galstyan

Title:

The Nation Will Sign, 1960

Location:

National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Artist: Simon Galstyan
Title: The Nation Will Sign, 1960
Location: National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

As many Armenian artist, Simon Galstyan depicted Komitas Archimandrite as a symbol of perpetuation of the nation, who had experienced the Genocide. The barbarically demolished room and the atrocities still carried out by the Turkish officers go to the background. Seeing the suffered glance of Komitas dressed all in white and at the same time the unsurrendered posture…

And the nation never stopped singing.

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Adriana Angolian