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Arshayl Gorki,

Arshile Gorky (Vostanik Adoyan), talented, brilliant Armenian artist, lived in Russia.
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Arshile Gorki (Gorky, Arshile) (real name Vostanik Adoyan) (1904-1948), American artist of Armenian descent, a leader of abstract expressionism.
Born in Horkome (Turkish province of Van), 15 April 1904 in the family merchant. Fleeing from war and related persecution of the Armenian population, moved with his family in Tbilisi and then in Batum (1919). In 1920 the family emigrated to the United States.
Attended School of Drawing in Rhode Island in Providence, then (1926-1931) taught at New York at the Drawing School and the Central School of Arts. In his stage name combined the name of "Arshile" (Armenian "Achilles") with the name "Hills" (in honor of Maxim Gorky).
Began with the things traditional figurative kind (Self-portrait with his mother, 1926, Museum of Modern Art, New York) for a long time searching for his style, immersed in P. Cézanne, Picasso and V. Kandinsky. Great influence on him had a meeting with R. Matta (1939). Soon, in developing the principles of surrealism in the direction of increasing irrelevance, Arshile Gorky became one of the the most significant artists of abstract expressionism. Transition from figurativa to abstraction was a series of "Garden in Sochi (1940-1942). He wrote colorful, often deliberately cryptic names on the canvas with shimmering forms, which stand out sharply on a colored background, recalling fragments feverishly pulsating organism. Sometimes in these phantasmagoria guessed - in the form of memories of childhood - the signs of the traditional peasant way of life. Among his works - "artichoke leaf as an owl" (Museum of Modern Art, New York), "The liver as a cock's comb" (Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo), "How embroidered apron my mother unfolds in my life" (private collection, U.S., all work - 1944), "Engagement" 2 (1947, Whitney Museum, New York).

In 1946, the weight of his paintings destroyed in a fire in the studio. Were added to the fire and other misfortunes, including auto accident (1948), crippled his right arm. All this is reflected in the state of mind of the artist.

Died in Sherman Hills (pcs Connecticut) July 21, 1948.

Pictures Arshila Hills http://armenia.h1.ru/Xudojniki/Arshi...kygallery.html