Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky was an American painter of Armenian descent who played a crucial role in the development of [url href=https://www.wikiart.org/en/artists-by-art-movement/abstract-expressionism]Abstract Expressionism[/url]. Originally named Vosdanig Adoian, Gorky was born in 1904 in the small village on the eastern border of the Ottoman Empire. Gorky was only a teenager when the Ottoman forces began t...