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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:

Seyran Khatlamajyan

Title:

April, 1987

Location:

Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

Artist: Seyran Khatlamajyan
Title: April, 1987
Location: Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

Seyran Khatlamajyan, who is one of the founders of the Armenian abstract art, recreated the month April in his powerful sense of color. (On April 24th of 1915 the arrest of the hundreds of Armenian intelligentsia, the extermination of the national elite, massacre of the Armenian nation started mainly from Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire).

Artist:

Eduard Isabekyan

Title:

Rapture 1, 1941

Location:

Artist's Family Collection

Artist: Eduard Isabekyan
Title: Rapture 1, 1941
Location: Artist's Family Collection

Eduard Isabekyan is from Igdir. In 1918 the artist's family migrated and pain of the loss of his motherland was so strong that he didn’t want to go back to Igdir that had been left in the hands of the enemy. Eduard Isabekyan wrote: "You dear, didn’t you have feet to migrate with us, so that we took you to the other side of Araz as well. You remained in order to be geographical concept of "alive dead"..."

Artist:

Sarkis Hamalbashian

Title:

Ani is Beyond the Border, 2014

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Sarkis Hamalbashian
Title: Ani is Beyond the Border, 2014
Location: Artist's Collection

Sarkis Hamalbashian: "Since my childhood, as an heir to survivors of the Armenian Genocide, I have heard stories about it and later tried to depict my impressions in my works. Later I realized that those stories were messages that should be passed to future generations through their representation in our works, until the recognition of the Genocide and the fulfillment of justice."

Artist:

Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian)

Title:

At the crucifix, 2001

Location:

Armenian Genocide Museum - Institute, Yerevan

Artist: Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian)
Title: At the crucifix, 2001
Location: Armenian Genocide Museum - Institute, Yerevan

In Der-Zor desert, late at night when the local Arab was trying to help save one of the Armenian families, the dying woman was begging to liberate the only daughter she had by taking her away. That girl was the mother of the artist.

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian