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The Artist’s Mother, Gorky
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The Artist’s Mother, 1926 or 1936 Arshile GorkyAmerican, born Armenia, 1904-1936
Arshile Gorky, an Armenian immigrant to the United States, developed an abstract painting style in�uenced by Surrealism, but, like many 20th-century artists, he �rst revealed his skills in representational work. The Artist's Mother is a large charcoal drawing inspired by a photo-graph of Gorky as a young boy with his mother. Drawing with a careful, classic simplicity, he transformed the woman's dark beauty into the perfect features of an Eastern Orthodox icon. “The eyes of the Armenian speak before the lips move and long after they cease to,” Arshile Gorky once wrote. Although of noble lineage, Gorky's mother, Lady Shushanik and her family were peasants exposed to severe hardship, including poverty and Turkish persecution and massacre. In 1919, Lady Shushanik died from starvation; in the following year Gorky and a sister emigrated to the United States.
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