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Arshile Gorky - The Father of Abstract Expressionism
I remember getting into an argument with an Art History Prof back in the stone age (pre-Internet) when I claimed that Arshile Gorky was Armenian. I was told to shut up - he was Russian! I needed at least a B but after I got my mark I took documented proof and dumped it on the Prof's desk in front of him and told him he needed to do his own research...or at least do it better/deeper before claiming somebody was a nationality they weren't! The Prof wanted to know how I knew. I said I grew up knowing. Armenians keep track of their own. LOL Thankfully I never had to have that Prof for any more classes that were modern art. Think he might have been in for more surprises.
![“I shall resurrect Armenia with my brush,” Gorky declared in 1944, “for all the world to see.”
Arshile Gorky - Vosdanig Manoug Adoian (Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; Arshile Gorky, original name Vosdanik Manoug Adoian - Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան- (born April 15, 1904, in the village of Khorkom, on the shores of Lake Van, Western Armenia [now in Turkey]—died July 21, 1948, Sherman, Conn., U.S.), American painter, important as the direct link between the European Surrealist painters and the painters of the American Abstract Expressionist movement.](https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/q81/p75x225/10857755_759491037477824_8904444508644354743_n.jpg?oh=03a840aed5f3972a98f005c473d6fafb&oe=553143FE&__gda__=1429209714_f422a2a4a7b0457159908bfe681f2a43)
Art of Armenia added 23 new photos to the album ARSHILE GORKY - Vosdanig Manoug Adoian - Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ադոյեան.
Arshile Gorky - The Father of Abstract Expressionism
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art en...
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