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Gorky's distant likenesses: a recent exhibition of Arshile Gorky's portraiture, the first show devoted solely to that subject, featured works ranging from precise, highly individuated drawings to paintings in which sitters were stripped of specific traits, gestures and even personality as the artist sought to "elevate" them to the ideal.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...weekly at 36 Union Square to pose for Arshile Gorky, he was always amazed to see that Gorky had scraped and sanded his portrait down. "I want the surface smooth, like glass," Gorky explained. The many layers of pigment would...
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`Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings' includes 140 drawings by Armenian-born artist
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 11/21/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...21-2003 Dateline: NEW YORK Arshile Gorky spent three weekends in 1942 at the rural...him transformed into patterns and lines. Gorky immersed himself in those surroundings...background. "Apple Orchard" is among 140 Gorky drawings on view at the Whitney Museum...
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Arshile Gorky Exhibit Opening Reception Phenomenal Success for Eastern Diocese
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 12/6/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Armenian-American modern artist, Arshile Gorky. More than 500 guests - major leaders...the Armenian Church of America, provided Gorky his rightful place in the spotlight. The...to pay tribute to the genius of Arshile Gorky, one of the most influential American...
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Arshile Gorky Adoian - A Worthy Son of Armenia
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 4/8/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Armenian Reporter, The 04-08-2000 Arshile Gorky Adoian - A Worthy Son of Armenia Over two...paintings, drawings and carvings of Arshile Gorky Adoian was held in a suburb of Chicago. The collection had been assembled by Gorky's sister, Vartoosh Mooradian, who lived...
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Tragic Gorky, in the Abstract
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/12/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...process. But the life of painter Arshile Gorky (1904?-48), the Armenian exile who...selection of the beautiful but bitter fruit of Gorky's trials is lusciously displayed in a...drawings focus on the years 1940-48, when Gorky opened a path that was followed by some...
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Maxim Gorky. A Political Biograhy
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Tovah Yedlin. Maxim Gorky. A Political Biography. Westport, CT...cloth. Amidst the horrors of WWI Maxim Gorky wrote to Roman Rolland: "A man must...on earth." This is the closest that Gorky came to enunciating a political credo...
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Considering Gorky, It's His Portraits That Really Matter.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 4/22/2002; 700+ words
; ...Kramer Has there ever before been an Arshile Gorky exhibition entirely devoted to the artist...recall one, and a quick search through the Gorky literature hasn't turned up a single...It's not hard to see why. Even before Gorky's death in 1948 at the age of 44, his...
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Maxim Gorky: Russian Dramatist.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Maxim Gorky: Russian Dramatist. By CYNTHIA MARSH. Bern...Cynthia Marsh follows up her slim volume File on Gorky (London: Methuen, 1993) with a more expansive work about Maxim Gorky's career as a playwright. While the former title...
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Arshile Gorky: Late Years of a Tragic Figure for the Armenian Painter
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 2/19/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Armenian Reporter, The 02-19-1994 Arshile Gorky: Late Years of a Tragic Figure for the Armenian. Painter NEW YORK, NY - "Gorky always had his own image. You know, it...the way he drew. It was terrifically Gorky." So Willem de Kooning once recalled...
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Arshile Gorky and the Armenian genocide. (traveling exhibition)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...occasion of a traveling exhibition of Arshile Gorky's work of the 1940s, the author argues that Gorky's childhood experiences of persecution and...brush for all the world to see. --Arshile Gorky, in a letter to his sister Part One Another...
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Gorky, Maxim
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
GORKY, MAXIM (1868 – 1936), renowned writer and playwright. Maxim Gorky (Maxim the Bitter) was born Alexei Maximovich...Alexander II and died in the Stalinist Soviet Union. Gorky was orphaned at an early age, and his formal education...
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Arshile Gorky
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Arshile Gorky The American painter Arshile Gorky (1905-1948) created a personal language of form dealing...Vosdanig Manoog Adoian changed his name in 1925 to Arshile Gorky, meaning the "bitter one." He emigrated to the United States...
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Maxim Gorky
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Maxim Gorky The cultural and political activities of the Russian author Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) made him known in the Soviet Union...Russian literary figure of the 20th century. Maxim Gorky whose real name was Aleksei Maximovich Peshkov...
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Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci Rock band For...music community, contrasting bands such as Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and the Super...in the picturesque Pembrokeshire region, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci created some...
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Gorky, Arshile
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Gorky, Arshile ( Vosdanig Manoog Adoian ) (1904...of Turkish persecution of the Armenians. Gorky managed to escape with his sister, and they...country he adopted the pseudonym Arshile Gorky, the first name being derived from the Greek...
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