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Showing results for "armenia (nation)" in Primary Keywords.
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- Title
- Study for 'Image in Xhorkom'
- Artist
- Arshile Gorky
- 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.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1904 - 1948
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1936
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.41
- Medium and Support
- graphite and tempera on off-white laid paper
- Date Added/Updated
- 2013-12-20 16:06:13
- Primary Keywords
- armenia
- armenia (historical region)
- biomorphic abstraction
- childhood
- families
- figures (representations)
- memory
- preparatory drawings
- surrealism
- surrealist
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- Title
- Leaf from a Bible with decorated initial and vegetal ornament
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Armenia
- Physical Description
- This page from a manuscript features two columns of text written in Armenian. An animal-shaped initial, composed of two stylized birds pecking one another, appears in the lower right column. The lower left margin is decorated with a sidebar that elegantly combines geometric and plant motifs. The decorative elements are painted in pink and blue with touches of reddish orange.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 15th century
- Accession Number
- 1958/1.162
- Medium and Support
- ink on glazed paper
- Date Added/Updated
- 2013-12-20 16:01:41
- Primary Keywords
- armenia (nation)
- bible
- christianity
- illuminations
- manuscripts