03 04 2007 - A chi reca a Parigi per pasqua ,

Ass.ne della Comunità Armena di Roma e del Lazio vi informa...:
Per informazione ai nostri amici che intendono recarsi in Francia per le feste pasquali.....:
SI è inaugurata questa mattina al Centro George Pompidou di Parigi la mostra dedicata al pittore armeno Arshie Gorky (Vostanik Adoyan) con la collaborazione della Fondazione Gulbenkian di Lisbona..

George Pompidou Center Hosts Arshile Gorky Exhibition
Paris, April 2, Armenpress: An exhibition of paintings by famous American Armenian artist Arshile Gorky has opened today in George Pompidou Center in Paris. The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Lisbon-based Gyulbenkian Foundation and displays the painters works which he created in 1940-s.

The exhibition is part of an extensive range of events, known as The Year of Armenia in France. The opening was attended by the French coordinator of the events, the Armenian ambassador to France and also an acclaimed glass designer Alain Mkrtchian (Alain Mikri).

One of the most famous contemporary artists, the founder of Abstract Surrealism, Gorky was described by Andre Breton as the most important painter in American history.

Arshile Gorky (1895-1948) was born Vostanik Adoyan in eastern Turkey. Raised in a poor Armenian family, Gorky's childhood was 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. He adopted it from his admiration of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky. Once settled with relatives in New England he enrolled in art classes.

Not long after, one of his instructors arranged for Gorky to move to New York to work as an art instructor. In the 1930s he achieved his first public success - producing a large abstract mural painting for Newark Airport.

In his artistic endeavors, Cezanne and Picasso became his praised models. Other influences came from the surrealist painters and poets who came to New York as exiles from the war in Europe.

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