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Arshile Gorky

1904 - 1948

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Arshile Gorky ( AR-sheel GOR-kee; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century. The suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian genocide had crucial influence on Gorky's development as an artist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arshile Gorky is the 614th most popular painter (up from 762nd in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 675th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Turkish Painter.

Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter. He is most famous for his abstract expressionist paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Arshile Gorky ranks 614 out of 2,023. Before him are Cornelis van Haarlem, Vlaho Bukovac, Karl von Piloty, Benvenuto Tisi, Léon Cogniet, and Edmund Leighton. After him are Jules Breton, Hans Burgkmair, Frans Masereel, Francesco del Cossa, Tom of Finland, and Bernard van Orley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Arshile Gorky ranks 78. Before him are Viktor Brack, Minoru Genda, Georges Canguilhem, Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, Isamu Noguchi, and Count Basie. After him are Ralph Bellamy, Lyudmila Rudenko, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, José Antonio Aguirre, Edmund Veesenmayer, and Nikolai Kuznetsov. Among people deceased in 1948, Arshile Gorky ranks 60. Before him are Kenji Doihara, Wolfram Sievers, Viktor Brack, Kantarō Suzuki, Otto Rasch, and Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din. After him are Princess Henriette of Belgium, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Mitsumasa Yonai, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Therese Brandl, and Prince Adalbert of Prussia.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Arshile Gorky ranks 584 out of 1,347. Before him are Justinian (525), Leo V, King of Armenia (1342), Mustafa Balel (1945), Andronikos Doukas Angelos (1130), Theodora of Trebizond (1253), and Hrant Dink (1954). After him are Meletius of Antioch (400), Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873), Apollonius Molon (-200), Alexios III of Trebizond (1338), Hakan Şükür (1971), and Şehzade Korkut (1467).

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Among PAINTERS In Türkiye

Among painters born in Türkiye, Arshile Gorky ranks 5. Before him are Apelles (-370), Theophanes the Greek (1340), Parrhasius (-500), and Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901). After him are Osman Hamdi Bey (1842), Iaia (-100), Jan Rustem (1762), Echion (-350), Halil Pasha (1857), Nevin Çokay (1930), and Hale Asaf (1905).

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