Arshile Gorky
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His real name is Vostanik Manuk Adoyan. But the whole world knows him as Arshile Gorky – the Great American artist, who was recognized in the United States as “the most international artist” and founder of the school of abstract expressionism.
Back in 1920, after stepping onto American soil for the first time, Vostanik declared: “Only to return to Van one day.”
It was in the U.S. that Vostanik Adoyan got the idea to change his Armenian surname. Thus, his artistic pseudonym Arshile Gorky was born. By adopting the Russian word Gorky (bitter), he wanted to express all the suffering that he had experienced in his young life.
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