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	Arshile Gorky, Artist Biography, Gorky
		Arshile Gorky, a Turkish-Armenian immigrant, born Vosdanig Manoog Adoian, arrived in the United States, in 1920, to join his father and a married sister.
		In the 1930's, however, Gorky came into contact with the Surrealist painters who had immigrated to the United States and from them learned the technique of automatism-the subconscious flow if images that were freely impressed upon the canvas-a technique well suited to Gorky's intense spiritual nature.
		Gorky worked from carefully prepared drawings, selecting the most telling from the wealth of free forms that sprang from his pen, and rearranging them into a more cohesive order by adding patches and streams of richly modulated color.
	vangoghgallery.com /artistbios/Arshile_Gorky.html (350 words)

	Arshile Gorky - Encyclopedia.com
		Gorky began (c.1940) to create abstractions consisting of involved, voluptuously organic shapes and glowing colors, all enveloped in an aura of mystery.
		Arshile Gorky Exhibit Opening Reception Phenomenal Success for Eastern Diocese
		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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Gorky-Ar.html (0 words)

	Arshile Gorky
		(Manny Silverman Gallery, West Hollywood) One of the pleasures to be derived from this intimate show of Gorky drawings is to be reacquainted with the tremulous tentativeness that abstract expressionism introduced into drawing and painting in the post-World War II years.
		Gorky's stature as one of the key progenitors of this style is established, and clearly it was a style whose coincidence with the dominance of Parisian existentialism in intellectual circles reflected the shattering of cultural and moral certainties caused by this cataclysmic war, and the genocidal atrocities associated with it.
		Contemporary critics quickly capitalized on this connection: agony, anxiety, "authenticity" were the qualities most in demand in the art of the time, and, one might add, in the lives of the artists.
	artscenecal.com /ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1997/Articles0297/AGorky.html (0 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Gorky - Biography
		Arshile Gorky was born Vosdanik Adoian in the village of Khorkom, province of Van, Armenia, on April 15, 1904.
		Throughout the 1920s Gorky's painting was influenced by Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, and, above all, Pablo Picasso.
		Gorky's first solo show in New York was held at the Boyer Galleries in 1938.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_57.html (0 words)

	Artist Profile: Arshile Gorky, Abstract Expressionist
		Gorky was also influenced by the painterly abstraction of Wassily Kandinsky, who is credited with painting one of the first two completely abstract paintings, in 1910.
		Gorky was one of the European artists whose work influenced their thinking and manner of painting, in varying degrees for the painters (probably de Kooning was most influenced by Gorky).
		Gorky was an excellent draftsman, and he often did his paintings from his drawings of nature - plant forms, insects, etc. He then added his own personal psychology into this landscape.
	www.ndoylefineart.com /gorky.html (1382 words)

	Arshile Gorky - Armeniapedia.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gorky was born in the village of Khorkom near Van, Turkey.
		Gorky was reunited with his father when he arrived in America in 1920, aged 16, but they never grew close.
		Gorky hanged himself in Sherman, Connecticut, in 1948, at the age of 44.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Arshile_Gorky (1128 words)

	Arshile Gorky Summary
		Gorky's last years witnessed a further extension of surrealist devices, stimulated by the presence in America of Roberto Matta Echaurren and later by the arrival of the remaining coterie of surrealists headed by André Breton.
		Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, better known as Arshile Gorky (born April 15, 1904 in the village of Khorkom near Van, Turkey and died July_21, 1948 in Sherman, Connecticut) was an Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter.
		Gorky fled Van in 1915 during the Turkish genocide of Armenians.
	www.bookrags.com /Arshile_Gorky (924 words)

	MyStudios -Artist Biographies Sponsored by Barewalls
		In 1930, Vosdanig Adoian took the name Arshile Gorky: Gorky, from Russian, meaning "the bitter one", and Arshile, a variation in spelling of Achilles, the hero who sat forlornly in his tent awaiting the recognition due him.
		In the 1930's, however, Gorky came into contact with the Surrealist painters who had immigrated to the United States and from them learned the technique of automatism-the subconscious flow if images that were freely impressed upon the canvas-a technique well suited to Gorky's intense spiritual nature.
		Gorky worked from carefully prepared drawings, selecting the most telling from the wealth of free forms that sprang from his pen, and rearranging them into a more cohesive order by adding patches and streams of richly modulated color.
	www.mystudios.com /bios/Arshile_Gorky.html (361 words)

	CNN.com - Arshile Gorky: Breaking into abstraction - Nov. 26, 2003
		Gorky was born Vosdanik Adoian around 1904 in the village of Khorkom in the province of Van, east Armenia.
		While "Arshile Gorky, 1904 to 1948: A Retrospective" at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in 1981 was the most comprehensive survey to date, the Whitney's exhibit is the most comprehensive display of his drawings, said curator Lee.
		Gorky's struggle to abstract what he sees is evident in a subsequent work from 1946, also titled "Drawing." The simple graphite on paper drawing using light lines does not fully abstract the image of a cow.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/11/26/gorky.exhibit.ap/index.html (935 words)

	The Artist and His Mother, Arshile Gorky (c1926) \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Artist: Arshile Gorky (1904-48), one of the greatest American painters, was so uncertain about how to make sense of his Armenian origins that he adopted a Russian name, telling people he was the nephew of the writer Maxim Gorky - implausibly, since this was a pen name.
		Gorky hit his stride when he returned imaginatively to the landscape of Lake Van, resurrecting it in dream paintings such as The Waterfall (1943) in Tate Modern.
		Gorky has given his mother a mask-like face, as if hewn in stone, and perhaps it is this, or the ghost-white fall of her dress, or the flatness of her body on the canvas, that tells us this is an image of someone dead.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /portrait/story/0,,740398,00.html (602 words)

	About Arshile Gorky \| Abbeville Press
		Arshile Gorky's status as a painter essential to the development of contemporary art is indisputable, and he has long been acknowledged as the vital link between European modern art and Ameican Abstract Expressionism.
		As for Gorky, he was content to let the viewer see and feel what he or she wished, though he was hopeful that the message conveyed by his paintings would parallel the feelings he had experienced while creating them.
		Arshile Gorky's canvases have enduring power, as evidenced by the fact that nearly forty years after his death his pictures speak poignantly to new generations of viewers.
	www.abbeville.com /Products/Excerpt/1558592490Excerpt.htm (1009 words)

	Fresno Art Museum - Vosdanik Manouk Adoian a.k.a. Arshile Gorky (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), born Vosdanig Adoian in Khorkom, Armenia, stands as the seminal force conjoining the artistic and cultural history of Eastern and Western art into a developing American art form that came to be known as Abstract Expressionism.
		Gorky's family (Adoian and der Marderosian) was one of multitudes uprooted and partly destroyed by this first recorded genocide of the 20th Century.
		Gorky's Eastern legacy was transfigured by an intense study of the history of Western art resulting in a "new" art that was both figurative and abstract - his mature work stands alone and apart from the other European and American Surrealists and Abstract Expressionists of his time.
	www.fresnoartmuseum.org /ex0406_gorky.php (737 words)

	Arshile Gorky and the Whitney Museum of American
		Gorky, one of the least-known artists in the Whitney's "Abstract Painting in America," may have felt that this recognition by the leading museum of American art established his importance.
		Perhaps Gorky's fragile health was at the back of Ethel's mind when, in the spring of 1948, she conceived the idea of writing a book on Gorky.
		Arguably Gorky's masterpiece, this painting is based on a photograph of the young Gorky and his mother, taken in 1912, before the Turkish massacre of Armenians during World War I, when Gorky, his mother, and his sister were sent on a death march.
	www.whitney.org /www/research/gorky/content.html (5917 words)

	Arshile Gorky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gorky was born in the village of poo Khorkom near Van, Turkey.
		Gorky was reunited with his father when he arrived in America in 1920, aged 16, but they never grew close.
		Gorky hanged himself in Sherman, Connecticut, in 1948, at the age of 44.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arshile_Gorky (620 words)

	Arshile Gorky - Artist Biography
		In 1930, Vosdanig Adoian took the name Arshile Gorky: Gorky, from Russian, meaning "the bitter one", and Arshile, a variation in spelling of Achilles, the hero who sat forlornly in his tent awaiting the recognition due him.
		In the 1930's, however, Gorky came into contact with the Surrealist painters who had immigrated to the United States and from them learned the technique of automatism-the subconscious flow if images that were freely impressed upon the canvas-a technique well suited to Gorky's intense spiritual nature.
		Gorky worked from carefully prepared drawings, selecting the most telling from the wealth of free forms that sprang from his pen, and rearranging them into a more cohesive order by adding patches and streams of richly modulated color.
	www.vangoghgallery.com /artistbios/Arshile_Gorky.html (344 words)

	Arshile Gorky
		Arshile Gorky fue un hombre orgulloso y melancólico, que experimentó el sufrimiento y la más extrema pobreza durante sus últimos años en su Armenia natal; secuelas de estos acontecimientos se advertirán constantemente a lo largo de sus obras.
		Arshile y Vartoosh (cargando en sus memorias lo destructivo e irracional de la historia del hombre), gracias a la ayuda de una vieja amiga de la familia, pudieron llegar a América junto a su padre en 1920.
		Arshile Gorky trabajó toda su vida en el contexto de una ardua búsqueda de sentido; sentido de la vida en general y sentido de la propia identidad; de su propio ser.
	www.salvador.edu.ar /transox/0101/gorki.html (4893 words)

	Museum Of Arshile Gorky To Open At Armenian Church Premises (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Arshile Gorky (1895-1948) was born Vostanik Adoyan in eastern Turkey.
		Raised in a poor Armenian farming family, Gorky's childhood was reportedly shaped by the genocide of 1915, that affected the entire Armenian population, and which claimed the life of his mother.
		Arshile Gorky was the name the aspiring artist assumed after coming to the U.S. in 1920.
	www.armeniadiaspora.com /js04/040420gorky.html (301 words)

	Arshile Gorky - AMAM
		Arshile Gorky was born Vosdanik Manook Adoian in Khorkom Vari Haiyotz Dzor, a village in the province of Van, a center of ancient Armenian culture.
		Gorky's mother died of malnutrition in December 1918, during a winter of severe deprivation for the Armenian refugees.
		Gorky's "breakthrough" painting (or paintings) were the later canvases of the Garden of Sochi series (1940-43), one of which was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art in 1942.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/gorky_arshile.html (1701 words)

	Arshile Custom Essay Writing, Arshile Essays, Research Papers, Custom Book Reports Overnight
		Gorky 's devotion to painting probably went too deep; he was, one may suspect, taking shelter in art from the strange continent upon which he had been cast.
		I have this impulse of Gorky 's in mind when, describing the paintings of his last period, I speak of their "sheltered space." "This place seems so big and unhappy because you are not here," he complained in a love letter fifteen years after his arrival in the United States.
		Arshile Gorky, himself a product of this period and a modern painter of considerable reputation, will add to this material his studies and knowledge in the field of science.
	www.millenniumessays.com /Arshile_custom_essays.php (539 words)

	Arshile Gorky - Artist Biographies
		In 1930, Vosdanig Adoian took the name Arshile Gorky: Gorky, from Russian, meaning "the bitter one", and Arshile, a variation in spelling of Achilles, the hero who sat forlornly in his tent awaiting the recognition due him.
		In the 1930's, however, Gorky came into contact with the Surrealist painters who had immigrated to the United States and from them learned the technique of automatism-the subconscious flow if images that were freely impressed upon the canvas-a technique well suited to Gorky's intense spiritual nature.
		Gorky worked from carefully prepared drawings, selecting the most telling from the wealth of free forms that sprang from his pen, and rearranging them into a more cohesive order by adding patches and streams of richly modulated color.
	www.posters-art.us /biography/Arshile_Gorky.html (361 words)

	Arshile Gorky and the Whitney Museum of American
		She recalled first encountering Gorky in 1928, through a friend who was studying with him at the Grand Central School of Art, but did not get to know him until she returned from Paris and began studying with him in January 1934.
		Gorky's slowly rising reputation in the 1930s did him little financial good, and Wolf continued to find creative ways to help the artist pay his bills, such as arranging a grant for $1,000 in 1946 from The New-Land Foundation, an organization, headed by Wolf, founded to aid refugees from World War II.
		Arguably Gorky's masterpiece, this painting is based on a photograph of the young Gorky and his mother, taken in 1912, before the Turkish massacre of Armenians during World War I, when Gorky, his mother, and his sister were sent on a death march.
	whitney.org /www/research/gorky/content.html (5917 words)

	Brain-Juice \| Biography of Arshile Gorky (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Gorky was only six years old, his father, Setrag Adoian, moved to America to find work, like many Armenian men who wanted to avoid conscription while sending money to support their families back home.
		Gorky was one of the first artists to enlist with the Public Works of Art project in 1933, formed to give artists work during the Depression.
		Gorky always worked hard for little material reward, and he was as uncompromising in his personal life as he was in his art.
	www.brain-juice.com /cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=82 (1459 words)

	Arshile Gorky - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Arshile Gorky is recognized as a pioneer of the new abstract painting that developed in New York after World War II.
		Born Vosdanik Adoian in the village of Khorkom, Armenia, Gorky's idyllic childhood was cut short by the Turkish invasion of Armenia and its ensuing ethnic persecution.
		Gorky's father and other relatives had fled to America earlier; the boy lived with his mother and sister as refugees in Russian-occupied territory.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?12850 (323 words)

	Black Angel, A Life of Arshile Gorky by Nouritza Matossian
		A colour portrait of Nouritza Matossian as Gorky's mother Shushanig from her performance Black Angel, A Double Life of Arshile Gorky is on the front cover.
		It is a collection of portraits of Armenian personalities such as Charles Aznavour, Peter Balakian, Atom Egoyan and essays on history, art, music film, politics, historic places, written by a panel of authors such as Yehuda Bauer, Vahakn Dadrian, Taner Akcam, edited by Huberta von Voss.
		The performance connects Gorky to his Armenian origins, and concerns the ways in which cultural traditions, politics and personal history are intertwined.
	www.arshile-gorky.com (0 words)

	Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective Of Drawings
		Arshile Gorky (Vosdanik Adoian) was born in 1904 or 1905 (there are differing accounts of the date) in the province of Van in Armenia.
		Gorky's artistic development can be defined in part by the transitions between rural and urban environments that marked the turning points in his life.
		Interpretations differ as to the source of these forms: some believe Gorky's inventions were inspired by plants and insects that he observed during his walks in the countryside, while others claim that these images recall genitals or viscera and must have welled up from Gorky's subconscious fantasies.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/3aa/3aa601.htm (1355 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Black Angel: Life of Arshile Gorky: Books: Nouritza Matossian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Black Angel: a Life of Arshile Gorky, Nouritza Matossian's impeccably researched, intensely romantic biography of the artist who was called "a Hollywood Rasputin", begins with his roots in Armenia as a survivor of the Turkish genocide of his people in 1915.
		Arshile Gorky is one of the most mysterious yet influential of great twentieth-century artists.
		She is the only biographer of Gorky's who has had intimate access to his relatives and culture, having undertaken a pilgrimage to the site of his birthplace, now in present day Eastern Turkey.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Black-Angel-Life-Arshile-Gorky/dp/0712667288 (1478 words)

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