Arshile GorkyStati Uniti, 1904–1948Untitled
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Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Stati Uniti
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About the painting
During a period of violent upheaval in the Ottoman Empire, Gorky escaped the Armenian genocide by Turkish troops and emigrated to the United States. The trauma of this experience deeply impacted his subsequent career as an artist. In the year he painted Untitled, he wrote to his sister, “it is as if some ancient Armenian spirit within me moves my hand to create so far from our homeland the shapes of nature we loved…. Our beautiful Armenia which we lost and which I will repossess in my art.”
Cleveland Museum of Art
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- 1963.152
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- Cleveland Museum of Art: the museum's own open data · acquisita 6 giorni fa
- Immagine: Cleveland Museum of Art — © The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Arshile Gorky
Tutta la vita5 aprile 1943
Daughter born: Maro Gorky
1944
Meets André Breton and the Surrealists
Gorky met André Breton and other well-known Surrealists.
8 agosto 1945
Daughter born: Natasha Gorky
1946–1948
A series of misfortunes: studio fire and cancer
His studio barn burned down, destroying his library and thirty of his paintings; he underwent a colostomy for cancer; and his wife, Agnes, had an affair with Roberto Matta.
