".. The form - is the language of the time and it should grow relentlessly. Many emotions and feelings are forever, some are transmitted more quickly than others. What is meant an artist, if not the creator, who wants to share. I'm looking for a form or language to express my ideas for our time ... "
Arshile Gorky
".. I am opposed to anarchy in politics and also against anarchy in the art. The art should be a structure, a kind of living art ... to me face-minded spirit of anarchy in art should not be. If it is, it is not art. Anarchy the only result of cynicism, it is disbelief in the intellectual capacity of human reason to overcome the difficulties with organizational skills and receptive skills. brutal immediacy - is chaos. Such anarchy rejects aesthetic art. True art insists upon the consciousness of ...
Drawing - painfully tedious career. If only I knew I would not crawl into it. But the suffering and torment in my mind forced me to realize - I had roditsya to suffer for art ... "
Arshile Gorky
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1904 - Born in s.Horgom in Eastern Armenia.
1908-1909 - begins to draw.
1910 - family moved to Van, where he attended school at the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Moved to the suburbs Aygestan. Go to American missionary school.
1915 - the beginning of mass deportation and genocide of Armenians. Family leaves the van. In Igdir, Echmiadzin gets to Yerevan.
1919 - after the death of his mother and sister moved to Tbilisi, then in Batumi.
In September, come to camp for Armenian refugees in Constantinople.
1920 - moved to the United States, sent to Providence, Rhode Island for his father, who had not seen for 12 years.
Studies at the School of Design and the higher technical school.
1921 - moved to Watertown.
1922-1924 - studies at the New School of Design, visiting museums.
For food washes dishes in a restaurant.
1924 - his first work appeared under the pseudonym Archele, until 1932., After which he signed as Arshile Gorky.
Acquired its first teaching experience as an assistant instructor of the New School of Design.
Perezzhaet in New York.
1925 - goes to the National Academy of Design, a month away from the academy. In October, comes at the Central School of Art.
1927 - acquired the studio in Washington square.
1930 - moves to a new studio in Union square.
1934 - becomes a member of the Union of Artists.
1935 - works in the Administration Federal Art Project.
He lectures at the exhibition of abstract art in the gallery "Boier".
Publishes a lecture "The methods, objectives and importance of abstract art."
1935-1937 - 10 panels painted (oil on canvas) for the 7-storey building of Federal Art Project.
Works on paintings of his native village Khorgo.
1937 - engaged in easel painting. Creates a work based on the interior painting of Picasso's studio.
1937-1938 - under the influence of Mirra and Masson works in a free biomorficheskom style.
1939 - doing the painting for the building of maritime and air transport.
Becoming a U.S. citizen.
1940 - teaches at the Central School of Art.
1941 - went to San Francisco.
1945 - J. Levy becomes a seller of his work.
1948 - in a car accident with J. Levy gets broken neck. "Working" hand loses mobility.
July 21 in Sherman's studio commits suicide.
Since 1930 - member of more than 200 international group exhibitions, and forums Biennale in leading galleries in the U.S. and Europe.
Since 1934 - had more than 80 personal exhibitions in different cities of the USA and Europe.
About the artist has written more than 130 publications, 100 articles, 20 monographs, 40 books.
In the life of the artist purchased the Whitney Museum of American Art and Julien Levy Gallery in New York.
1979 - come two films about the artist: "Life and work Arshila Hills", "Murals without walls"