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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:

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.

Artist:

Ervand Kochar

Title:

Erebuni - Yerevan, 1968

Location:

Ervand Kochar Museum, Yerevan

Artist: Ervand Kochar
Title: Erebuni - Yerevan, 1968
Location: Ervand Kochar Museum, Yerevan

By portraying the Guardian Angel on one pane of the spatial painting, holding a book over her head at the same height as the heavenly luminaries, Kochar emphasises the importance attached by the Armenian people to writing and literature, culture and science, hinting that the secret of our eternal existence lies in this kind of worship.

Kochar seems to have derived the image of the Angel from the old Armenian miniatures, maintaining even the colour traditions of our miniaturists.

Artist:

Aram Davtyan

Title:

Orphaned, 1969

Location:

History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan

Artist: Aram Davtyan
Title: Orphaned, 1969
Location: History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan

In 1915 Armenian children were witnessing how Turkish soldiers were cruelly murdering their parents and the only dream their parents had at the moment was to see their children saved. Aram Davtyan’s "The Orphaned Child" is the collective image of the Armenian children who went through the disasters. Their eyes lost the childish pure and innocent sparkle and gained sorrow and power instead.

Artist:

Seeroon Yeretzian

Title:

Disposable, 1982

Location:

Private Collection

Artist: Seeroon Yeretzian
Title: Disposable, 1982
Location: Private Collection

Seeroon Yeretzian: "The millions of Armenians that were killed in the Genocide were treated like objects that could be disposed, literally Turkey's intention."

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Artist:

Adriana Angolian