Gorky began a 'journey' in his attempt to comprehend his traumatic ordeal through Art. In 1926, with the safety of a constructed name and life, the artist started working on 'The Artist and his Mother' series. Focusing on the two versions of Gorky's early painting and using relevant aspec...
His mother died of starvation in 1919, after which he and his sister immigrated to the United States, where the artist changed his name, claiming to be a relative of the writer Maxim Gorky. Eventually settling in New York, Gorky studied and taught at the Grand Central School of Art,...
In 1910 Gorky's father immigrated to the United States to avoid a Turkish war draft, leaving his family behind. Gorky fled the country in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and escaped to Russian-controlled territory with his mother and his three sisters. Gorky's mother died of starvation durin...
His The Artist and His Motherpaintings are based on a childhood photograph taken in Van in which he is depicted standing beside his mother. Gorky made two versions; the other is in the National Gallery of Art Washington, DC.. The painting has been likened to Ingres for simplicity of line ...
His father fled to America without them and his mother died of starvation in his arms in 1919. Eventually Gorky got out of the Ottoman Empire and went to America to meet up with his father but they didn’t exactly bond since he bailed on them and allowed Gorky’s mother to die. A ...
In this ongoing series, writers are invited to discuss a contemporary work that has special...Ash, JohnJohn Ash, “Arshile Gorky: How My Mother’s Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life, 1944,” Artforum , XXXIV, No. 1 (September, 1995), 79....
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Arshile Gorky, American painter who was the direct link between European Surrealist painters and the American Abstract Expressionist movement.
The Surrealists’ idea that art is the expression of the artist’s unconscious enabled Gorky to discover his personal idiom, which he pursued the last eight years of his life. In such works as The Liver Is the Cock’s Comb (1944) and How My Mother’s Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My ...