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Birth
1904 (Khorkom Vari Haiyotz Dzor, Armenia)
Death
1948 (Sherman, Connecticut)
Lived/Active
New York/Connecticut
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abstract expressionism, surrealism, automatism
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Abstract Expressionism
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Living a life dominated by tragedy and despair, Arshile Gorky nevertheless became one of the most important abstract 20th-century artists. The art critic Harold Rosenberg wrote that Gorky was "an artist in exile for whom art became a homeland". (Baigell 139)
Born Vosdanig Manoog Adoian in Turkish Armenia, Arshile Gorky had a happy childhood in his small village but became an Armenian refugee during World War I. He escaped the Turkish slaughter but became a refugee in Russia with his mothe (showing 500 of 6829 characters). |
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