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The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract ...

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Arshile Gorky

Painter

Born: 1904-04-15

Died: 1948-07-21

Arshile Gorky (15 April 1904 – 21 July 1948), born Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, was an American abstract expressionist painter of Armenian descent, living and working in New York, where he got later strongly involved with American Surrealism. He was a very close friend of Willem de Kooning who respected him as a teacher in painting.More