Genre art painter Hmayak Ardzatbanyan deeply influenced by the Armenian massacres, created series of canvases presenting the atrocities carried out towards Armenians by Turks. The scene painted in the "Turkish atrocity" canvas is just one piece of those horrific acts that later on was called a GENOCIDE.

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".

This work is the first response of M.Sarian on hearing about the Gret Genocide committed upon his nation. Viewing the fruits and household items, chaotically scattered on the canvas, the onlooker can discern the painter’s cry from the very heart. The Egyptian masks like history’s judges condemn the massacre of Armenians as universal tragedy.

Black color that appeared in Sarian’s palette had manifested all the tragic of his feelings. None the less the fragile and emotional soul of the Armenian intelligentsia so deeply shocked and unprotected in this period had to revive the national culture on their native land some years later. Depicted in the background motif of fruit and a blooming branch symbolize the idea of this powerful inner potential.