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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.

100 years

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:

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.

Artist:

Hmayak Ardzatpanian

Title:

Turkish Atrocity, 1915

Location:

National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

Artist: Hmayak Ardzatpanian
Title: Turkish Atrocity, 1915
Location: National Gallery of Armenian, Yerevan

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.

Artist:

Seeroon Yeretzian

Title:

If I Was in Adana, 1990

Location:

Private Collection

Artist: Seeroon Yeretzian
Title: If I Was in Adana, 1990
Location: Private Collection

Seeroon Yeretzian: "If the Genocide never happened, most likely this would be my family portrait - me, my husband and my son."

Artist:

Sahak Poghosyan

Title:

Silecne of My Grandmother's Eyes, 2015

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Sahak Poghosyan
Title: Silecne of My Grandmother's Eyes, 2015
Location: Artist's Collection

Sahak Poghosyan: "The project Silence of my grandmother's eyes has been a silent monologue for nearly 50 years... my paternal grandmother was the first person, who connected me with the surrounding world... in my memory I still carry the odor of my childhood, which I scented sleeping in my grandmother's embrace... it was a story with hazy colors, which I was always keen to depict…And now , presenting it, the silent sorrow of her blue eyes recovers in my memory, yelling out the hellish path of the Genocide… Surviving a real hell she never told about it ... she did not tell, but with the right of a survival she transmitted it to the ones who live ... carrying as a relic a patch of the blue sky of her lost homeland in her eyes ..."

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian