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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:

Eduard Isabekyan

Title:

Western Armenia, 1940

Location:

Artist's Family Collection

Artist: Eduard Isabekyan
Title: Western Armenia, 1940
Location: Artist's Family Collection

Eduard Isabekyan: "Memory is a very important thing. There is no other nation in the world that needs memory more than the Armenian nation. Because there is no other nation in the world that has left its property, its soil, 99% of everything owned to others. If Igdirtsis forget Igdir, Alashkertsis - Alashker, Vanetsis forget Van, Bayazettsis - Bayazets and etc If they forget that the entire nation never forgot where they are from. The Armenian needs our memory, for him to be able to own whatever his has lost, so as always to remember that he has to bring back whatever he has lost."

Artist:

Tigran Tsitoghdzyan

Title:

Armenian Mirror, 2013

Location:

Private Collection

Artist: Tigran Tsitoghdzyan
Title: Armenian Mirror, 2013
Location: Private Collection

Tigran Tsitoghdzyan: "This painting is the mirror of Armenian society."

Artist:

Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian)

Title:

Funeral of My Grandfather, 1951

Location:

Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

Artist: Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian)
Title: Funeral of My Grandfather, 1951
Location: Modern Art Museum of Yerevan

Shahen Khachatryan (Art critic): "The sensitive lines of Jansem are flowing in the canvases like blood vessels and harmonizing the subtle, pale color palette, they create hyperrealistic, visual and music atmosphere. Jansem practices this principle of building the image. Exactly 50 years after the Genocide inspired "Funeral of my grandfather" painting, the master creates the "Genocide" series revealing the curtain of the history truth.

Artist:

Shahen Aslanyan

Title:

Der-Zor, 2010

Location:

Artist's Collection

Artist: Shahen Aslanyan
Title: Der-Zor, 2010
Location: Artist's Collection

Shahen Aslanyan created this painting under the impression of real and sensitive survivals. The artist, visiting Der-Zor, where in 1915 the Ottoman Empire implemented the plan of extermination of the Armenian, felt all over again everything that had happened one century ago. Looking at the horizon of the crimson sunset, the artist “saw” the silhouette of the exhausted Armenian women with her starved children. This was a real vision, that got eternally depicted on the canvas of Shahen Aslanyan.

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian