I was lucky enough to see the Arshille Gorky retrospective exhibit on its last day at the Philadelphia Art Museum.  Gorky holds a place in art history as the last of the great surrealist painters and a pivotal precursor to American Abstract Expressionism.  As a teenager he witnessed the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent death of his mother.  His iconic self-portrait with his mother is shown in the museum’s pamphlet for the exhibit, displayed above.  After […]

Categories: abstract expressionism, Armenian Genocide, Arshile Gorky, Djivan Gasparian, Hasmik Harutyunyan, Lafayette College, Shoghaken Ensemble, surrealism, Williams Art Center