Arshile Gorky: Ararat (Excerpts)

Years after campaigns against minority Armenians in Turkey caused his family to disperse and his mother to die before his eyes, Gorky found a 1912 photograph taken in the city of Van upon which he based drawings and paintings entitled The Artist and His Mother. The video Ararat (Excerpts) investigates the fraught history of Gorky's lost childhood through his protracted work on the image of himself at age 12, standing beside his mother Shushan. Derived from the feature-length film Ararat written and directed by Academy Award®-nominated director Atom Egoyan.

[@zohrehzand1300]

very touching. Tears in my eyes.

[@peggybistolarides8075]

Very touching video.

[@waynemoran9101]

Sad but beautiful ❤️

[@SoSo-yq2zi]

what a nice representation of the aftermath of 1915...

[@jannar1790]

Genius Gorky

[@adriannemonk6986]

I have his book, it's been collecting dust in a box full of Armenian books in my garage over the years. Way too many pages for me to read.

[@sawyerkaspbrak612]

who else here for social studies?

[@Haykkkkk]

Armenia 🇦🇲

[@armenkazaryan7181]

⚔️⚔️🛡🧿🏛🕊🇦🇲🕊🏛🧿🛡⚔️⚔️

[@IngaPetrosyan]

very true film about the armenian genocide commited by Turks a century ago without even recognising it and reparing. they still continue to treat Armenians "like dogs" in Artsakh and armenian borders and all over the world with diaspora.

[@ceydabtekin_]

Errata for National Gallery of Art, In 1912, Turkey haven't been formed, yet. As a one of the remarkable Art Gallery of the United States you are responsible to do your relevant researches from historical documents, and your claims must be reliable in every aspect. You cannot put forward your own ideas, or made-up hypocritical political myths. The Treaty of Lausanne of July 24, 1923, led to the international recognition of the sovereignty of the newly formed "Republic of Turkey", and the republic was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923, in the new capital of Ankara. Please do not blend hypocrisy and art with each other.

[@a.hamikson]

it is you and your ancestors who are responsible for what you have done. no matter how you lie, it was your ancestors who staged a genocide. even call yourself Mozambique, the Ottoman Empire or Turkey, the essence does not change.

[@priscillad8]

don't justify the unjustifiable

[@gebesh_]

typical delusional turkish comment. Turkish propaganda has ruined your minds

[@TempusEst]

@@priscillad8 Dear Armenian, this is not a justification. This is the correction of a mistake. It was the Ottoman Empire, not the Republic of Turkey.

[@priscillad8]

@@TempusEst I'm not Armenian, I'm a person who has a sense of history, simple as that. Own your mistakes!