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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
Arshile (Vosdanig Manoog Adoian) Gorky - Artist Info
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Media
- •Cardboard
- •Chalk
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Magic Marker, Sharpie, Felt-Tip Pen
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstract Figurative, Human Figure
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cubism, Cubist
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Non Objective Subject
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Russia
Art School
- •Grand Central School of Art, Teacher
- •National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
- •Rhode Island School of Design, Student
- •Rhode Island School of Design, Teacher
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Art Collection
- •Richard Weisman Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Botany Specialty
- •Camouflage Artist
- •Figure Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Pastel Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Venice Biennale
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art