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Arshile (Vosdanig Manoog Adoian) Gorky ESSAYS
1904 Khorkom Vari Haiyotz Dzor, Armenia - 1948 Sherman, Connecticut. Known for: Painting-abstract expressionism, surrealism, automatism.
Review of Arshile Gorky Retrospective at the Philadelphia Art Museum, October 21, 2009-January 10, 2010. http://araratmagazine.org/2010/06/gorky-in-philadelphia/. This is an excellent exhibition... Read full biography
Review of Arshile Gorky Retrospective at the Philadelphia Art Museum, October 21, 2009-January 10, 2010. http://araratmagazine.org/2010/06/gorky-in-philadelphia/. This is an excellent exhibition which takes the viewer on a journey from Gorky's early years as an artist struggling to find his own... Read full biography
Review of Arshile Gorky Retrospective at the Philadelphia Art Museum, October 21, 2009-January 10, 2010. http://araratmagazine.org/2010/06/gorky-in-philadelphia/. This is an excellent exhibition which takes the viewer on a journey from Gorky's early years as an artist struggling to find his own identity and style to his later years of freedom and confidence in an art that was all his own. Though it is large in scope, it is completely manageable in an hour to an hour and a half. Most people are... Read full biography
Review of Arshile Gorky Retrospective at the Philadelphia Art Museum, October 21, 2009-January 10, 2010. http://araratmagazine.org/2010/06/gorky-in-philadelphia/. This is an excellent exhibition which takes the viewer on a journey from Gorky's early years as an artist struggling to find his own identity and style to his later years of freedom and confidence in an art that was all his own. Though it is large in scope, it is completely manageable in an hour to an hour and a half. Most people are familiar with Gorky as "a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art after World War II," but they might not know about his personal and often tragic history. He was born around 1902, and witnessed firsthand the... Read full biography
Review of Arshile Gorky Retrospective at the Philadelphia Art Museum, October 21, 2009-January 10, 2010. http://araratmagazine.org/2010/06/gorky-in-philadelphia/. This is an excellent exhibition which takes the viewer on a journey from Gorky's early years as an artist struggling to find his own identity and style to his later years of freedom and confidence in an art that was all his own. Though it is large in scope, it is completely manageable in an hour to an hour and a half. Most people are familiar with Gorky as "a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art after World War II," but they might not know about his personal and often tragic history. He was born around 1902, and witnessed firsthand the Armenian genocide. In 1915 his family was driven out and his mother died of starvation in 1919. 1920 brought him to Boston... Read full biography