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• Arshile Gorky
 
GORKY Arshile, (Vosdanig Manoog Adoian)
1905 Hayotz-Dzore (Turkish Armenia) - 1948 Sherman (CT)
Armenian-born American painter.

  
  1920 Emigrated to the USA. First auto-didactic attempts at painting clearly influenced by Cezanne's works.
  
  1920-1922 Studied at Rhode Island School of Design.
  
  1923/24 Taught at the New School of Design in Boston.
  
  1930's Exhibitions of Surrealist Art in New York in the 30s introduced him to the works of Picasso, Miró, and Masson, and inspired experiments with biomorphic forms.
  
  1941 From 1941 worked with luminous grounds and calligraphic lines.
  
  1947 Abandoned Surrealism and spoke out against Abstract Expressionism, although he had a fundamental influence on painters in this movement.
  
 
After paralysing his right hand in a car accident, he commited suicide. With his Color Fields and hybrid forms, Gorky played a key role in the development of Abstract Expressionism in America.

  


image: arshile gorky - one year the milkweed

'one year the milkweed', 1944, oil on canvas,
94 x 119 cm (37 x 49")


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