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ARSHILE GORKY: THE FATHER OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
by Neha VashisthaSynthesizing Surrealism and the sensuous color and painterliness of the School of Paris with his own highly personal abstract vocabulary, the Armenian-American painter, Arshile Gorky, is celebrated as the last of the great Surrealist painters and one of the first Abstract Expressionists.
Famous for creating beauty out of personal tragedy, Gorky was born Vosdanig Adoian, on April 15, 1904, in the village of Khorkom, near lake Van, in an Armenian province on the eastern border of Ottoman Turkey.
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