DibaSar: "The survivors of Armenian Genocide having their “Naufrages” standing, leaving their beloved ones behind. In their eyes, we see sorrow, suffering, and hope to continue to live."

Whitney Museum of American Art: "This portrait of Arshile Gorky and his mother is based on a photograph taken in Armenia in 1912, when the artist was just a child. Three years later, during the Ottoman Turk campaign of Genocide against the Armenians, Gorky, his mother, and his younger sister all survived a death march, but his mother never recovered her health. She died in 1919 from starvation. The following year, the fifteen-year-old Gorky immigrated to the United States with his sister. Gorky, however, did not simply copy the photograph, but painted a meditation on remembrance: the white apron worn by Gorky’s mother makes her appear statue-like, and other areas of the painting seem, like memory itself, unfinished and mutable. The figures’ searching gazes lend the composition psychological intensity, eliciting sympathy yet avoiding outright pathos or sentimentality."

Shahen Khachatryan (Art critic): "Ashot Hovhannisyan’s art is the artistic form of understanding the country’s deepest layers and great power. Looking at the hands, feet, movements of the displaced people, one can see the artist’s inner power. The artist also painted himself on the carriage in the background in white as a part of the struggling power. His speech is about making his land asserted, fostering the progress of the identity of the nation."

Sergey Parajanov usually doesn't comment on his works so as each viewer could feel and describe the art on their own way. This work belongs to the series of non-described works of the master as well.