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Arshile Gorky, an Armenian immigrant to the
I’m wondering why this work of
United States, developed an abstract painting
Gorky’s is so di erent from other
style in uenced by Surrealism, but, like many
works the Art Institute displays?
20th-century artists, he rst revealed his skills in
representational work. The Artist's Mother is a
large charcoal drawing inspired by a photo-
graph of Gorky as a young boy with his mother.
I’d like to know why this piece is
Drawing with a careful, classic simplicity, he
not on display more often? What
transformed the woman's dark beauty into the
is the reason for this decission?
perfect features of an Eastern Orthodox icon.
“The eyes of the Armenian speak before the lips
move and long after they cease to,” Arshile To read responses to these
Gorky once wrote. Although of noble lineage, comments by the museum and
Gorky's mother, Lady Shushanik and her family it’s patrons click the arrows
were peasants exposed to severe hardship, to continue on to our blog!
including poverty and Turkish persecution and
massacre. In 1919, Lady Shushanik died from
starvation; in the following year Gorky and a
sister emigrated to the United States.
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