Study for 'Image in Xhorkom' / Arshile Gorky
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- Accession Number
- 1964/2.41
- Title
- Study for 'Image in Xhorkom'
- Artist
- Arshile Gorky
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1904 - 1948
- Medium and Support
- graphite and tempera on off-white laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1936
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Florence L. Stol
- Style/Group/Movement
- Surrealist
- Inscription
- Signed, l.r.: Gorky Watermark: MICHALLET / FRANCE
- Dimensions
- 48.7 cm x 62.7 cm (19 3/16 in. x 24 11/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- study
- Physical Description
- Black and white drawing of organic forms vaguely resembling human figures flowing into one another in a room-like space. On the right hand side of the grouping stands the most recognizably humanoid figure.
- Subject Matter
- Xhorkom is the village in Turkish Armenia in which the artist grew up before the Armenian genocide during World War I. The piece uses abstract, organic forms to evoke the happy, nurturing, cradling experience of his childhood with his family and to express,the indeterminate, changing, and fantastical shape of memory.
- Primary Keywords
- armenia
- armenia (historical region)
- biomorphic abstraction
- childhood
- families
- figures (representations)
- memory
- preparatory drawings
- surrealism
- surrealist
- Secondary Keywords
- visual arts
- abstraction
- artistic concepts
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- asia (continent)
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- biological concepts
- biomorphic
- concepts in the arts
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- drawings by function
- european
- european styles and periods
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- geographic and political locations
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- life stages
- locality
- modern and contemporary art
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1477 x 999
- File Size
- 106 KB
- Record
- 1964/2.41
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1964-sl-2.41/1964_2.41.jpg
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"Study for 'Image in Xhorkom'; Arshile Gorky." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1964-sl-2.41/1964_2.41.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
