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Arshile Gorky

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Arshile Gorky , c.1900-48, American painter, b. Armenia as Vosdanig Adoian. He escaped the Turkish slaughter of Armenians, emigrated to the United States in 1920, studied at Boston's New School of Design, and moved to New York City in 1925. An extraordinarily fluid draftsman inspired by Ingres, Picasso , and several other artists, Gorky developed a figurative style of great refinement. A more radical turn in his art was prompted by the spontaneous automatism found in surrealism and in the works of MirĂ³ and Matta . Gorky began (c.1940) to create abstractions consisting... Read more
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky The American painter Arshile Gorky (1905-1948) created a personal language of form dealing with...Armenia, Vosdanig Manoog Adoian changed his name in 1925 to Arshile Gorky, meaning the "bitter one." He emigrated to the United States... Read more
Gorky, Arshile
Gorky, Arshile ( Vosdanig Manoog Adoian) (1904–...Turkish persecution of the Armenians. Gorky managed to escape with his sister, and...his new country he adopted the pseudonym Arshile Gorky, the first name being derived from the... Read more

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