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Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent most his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian Genocide.
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Arshile Gorky Waterfall
1943
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Arshile Gorky: Artist and His Mother
Arshile Gorky The Artist and His Mother 1926-36 © Estate of Arshile Gorky, courtesy ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2010
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Arshile Gorky: Waterfall
Arshile Gorky Waterfall 1942-43, © Estate of Arshile Gorky, courtesy ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2010 Tate
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Life with Gorky: Director's Q&A
This intimate portrait of Gorky by his granddaughter Cosima Spender includes interviews with Mougouch Gorky, the artist’s widow, about ... -
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Atom Egoyan on Arshile Gorky
Independent filmmaker Atom Egoyan talks about a number of his installations and short films that relate to Arshile Gorky's ... -
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Abstract Connections conference – Part 2
Audio recordings of Abstract Connections conference, held in conjunction with two major exhibitions, Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing ... -
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Abstract Connections conference – Part 3
Audio recordings of Abstract Connections conference, held in conjunction with two major exhibitions, Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing ... -
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Abstract Connections conference – Part 4
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Abstract Connections conference – Part 5
Audio recordings of Abstract Connections conference, held in conjunction with two major exhibitions, Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing ... -
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Abstract Connections conference – Part 1
Audio recordings of Abstract Connections conference, held in conjunction with two major exhibitions, Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing ... -
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Abstraction Study Day – Part 1
This study day considers some of the broad issues and ideas associated with the concept of 'abstraction'. Part 1 audio ...
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Tate Etc
My Gorky: Arshile Gorky
The influential Armenian-born American painter Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) was described as the last of the great Surrealists, the first ...
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Tate Papers
The Other Story and the Past Imperfect
The Other Story, 1989, the first retrospective exhibition of British African, Caribbean and Asian modernism, was received with derision and ...
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Tate Papers
Kandinsky and Contemporary Painting
The author assesses the reach of Kandinsky’s early painting, first reflecting upon the sense of scale and time in ...
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Art, culture and camouflage
In 1896 the American artist Abbott H. Thayer published an article on how animals protected themselves with the use of ...
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