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.
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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:
Kaloust Guedel
Title:
Levitation, 2003
Location:
Modern Art Museum of Yerevan
Artist: Kaloust Guedel
Title: Levitation, 2003
Location: Modern Art Museum of Yerevan
Kaloust Guedel: "As an experimental artist throughout the years I have worked in various groups. "Levitation" is part of the Genocide group, of which I had no intention of creating to begin with. For me there are two primary approaches, that can be employed: one is to decide what to do and the other to do and then to figure out what has been created. This group came to life as a free exploration of the subconscious mind. After creating it, I realized, that it was a reference to the Armenian Genocide, which happened to be part of our individual psyche. Only lately I have come to realize, that for me the creation of the Genocide group was a necessary experience and served as a therapy to be able to move forward in life. All figures in "Levitation" are self portraits."
Artist:
Leon Tutundjian
Title:
Yellow Mask, 1930
Location:
Private Collection
Artist: Leon Tutundjian
Title: Yellow Mask, 1930
Location: Private Collection
Tutunjian was born in Amasia (Western Armenia). In 1915 during the Genocide he was taken to Greece together with thousands of Armenian orphans, and in 1923 he left for Paris. In Paris Tutunjian got attracted to surrealism and he found his self-expression by adopting that direction. The “unspeakable truth” that exists in Tutundjian’s art that can possible be entirely imaginative are mere forms of expression for the artists who carries the cruel images and heartbreaking emotions of childhood that cannot be told in words.
Artist:
Lilit Stepanian
Title:
#1915, 2010
Location:
Private Collection
Artist: Lilit Stepanian
Title: #1915, 2010
Location: Private Collection
Lilit Stepanian: "The face of the Armenian is the reflection of his soul. This reflection, that changes time and again at the crossroads of centuries, contorts with its pain, shines with its triumph, cracks again and trembles, breaks and is born anew."
Artist:
Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian)
Title:
Requiem, 2001
Location:
Armenian Genocide Museum - Institute, Yerevan
Artist: Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian)
Title: Requiem, 2001
Location: Armenian Genocide Museum - Institute, Yerevan
In 1973 Jansem visited Armenia for the first time. He returned to Yerevan in 2001 and offered 34 of his paintings dedicated to the Armenian Genocide to the Genocide Museum Institute of Armenia.
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Artist: Adriana Angolian
Live Memory, 1994
Artist: Adriana Angolian
Gold Universe, 2016
Artist:
Khoren Der Harootian
Artist: Khoren Der Harootian
Ani (bronze), 1963
Artist:
Alexander Sadoyan
Artist: Alexander Sadoyan
Immigration
Artist:
Alexander Sadoyan
Artist: Alexander Sadoyan
Untitled
Artist: Levon Fljyan
Our Ancestors-2 (from Pixel 2 project), 2012
Artist: Kaloust Guedel
All Men are Created Alike, 2003
Artist: Zareh
Turkish Soup Made with Armenian Bones, 1998
Artist: Arthur Lazaryan
Never Again
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