Arshile Gorky

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Armenian-American artist painter person

Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter whose innovative fusion of Surrealism and abstraction made him a key precursor of Abstract Expressionism.

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Armenian-American artist → painter → person →
activeYearsEnd	1948 →
activeYearsStart	1920 →
birthName	Vostanik Manoug Adoian →
causeOfDeath	suicide →
countryOfBirth	Ottoman Empire →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1904-04-15 →
dateOfDeath	1948-07-21 →
ethnicity	Armenian →
familyName	Adoian →
fieldOfWork	painting →
genre	abstract painting → biomorphic abstraction →
givenName	Vostanik →
influenced	Abstract Expressionism → American Abstract Expressionist painters → Willem de Kooning →
influencedBy	Cubism → Joan Miró → Pablo Picasso → Paul Cézanne → Surrealism →
languageSpoken	Armenian → English →
movement	Abstract Expressionism → Abstract art → Surrealism →
notableFor	being a key precursor of Abstract Expressionism → innovative abstract compositions →
notableWork	Agony → Garden in Sochi → The Artist and His Mother → The Liver is the Cock’s Comb → The Liver is the Cock’s Comb (1944) → The Liver is the Cock’s Comb (1944–1945) →
occupation	painter → visual artist →
placeOfBirth	Khorgom →
placeOfDeath	Sherman, Connecticut, United States →
relative	Vartoosh Adoian →
residence	New York City →
sibling	Vartoosh Adoian →
spouse	Mougouch Fielding →
style	fusion of Surrealism and abstraction →
taughtAt	Grand Central School of Art →
victimOf	Armenian genocide (family displacement and trauma) →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Abstract expressionism →	associatedWithArtist
The Phillips Collection →	hasWorkBy
Richard Diebenkorn →	influencedBy
Art Students League of New York →	notableAlumni