DibaSar: "This painting shows the scene of torture that the victims of Genocide have experienced. I was told about such stories from my great grandmother when I was 4 years old. I have heard similar testimonies from other memme generation as well. These stories got engraved in my consciousness, this illustrates my imagination whenever I think of them.

I realized that canvas, "the CARNAGE" a tribute to all victims of barbarism and wars and genocides. I depicted women, children who struggle with every strength of their lives against the savagery inflicted by the enemy and evil forces: some fall, some die, some survive, some miraculous escape, I depict the miracles by the female figure right in the center of the canvas, the woman on a horse that symbolizes both the freedom, love, life and giving birth to the upcoming generations."

The Armenians inhabiting in the Ottoman empire have been continuously subjected to violence and massacres before the Armenian Genocide in 1915. Since 1894-96 more than hundred thousand Armenians have been massacred in various regions of the Western Armenia. This horrific and tragic news deeply influenced the world famous Hovhannes Aivazovsky. He expressed his pain and sufferings by creating series of painting such as "Night. Armenians thrown overboard", "The massacre of Trabizon", "Lord Byron visiting the Mekhitarist Congregation of ST Lazzaro", "Farewell" and the "Night. Tragedy at the Sea of Marmara" canvas as well.

Aivazovsky suddenly died in 1900 leaving the "Explosion of a Turkish warship" canvas unfinished on the molbert.

As many Armenian artist, Simon Galstyan depicted Komitas Archimandrite as a symbol of perpetuation of the nation, who had experienced the Genocide. The barbarically demolished room and the atrocities still carried out by the Turkish officers go to the background. Seeing the suffered glance of Komitas dressed all in white and at the same time the unsurrendered posture…

And the nation never stopped singing.

Meruzhan Khachatryan: "The painting was created with the idea of how naive and shortsighted we used to be when we didn’t even realize the obvious evil plan and implementation of the extermination of Armenians given the prehistory full of similar examples. And on the contrary, thank God that we have survived and we will survive."