Water of the Flowering Mill
1944
Arshile Gorky was one of the leading members of the Abstract Expressionist movement. He also had one of the most tragic lives of a 20th century artist: his mother died of famine in Armenia, he was never close with his father and, in his final years, his studio burned down, he had a colostomy due to cancer, his dominant arm was paralyzed for a stretch after a car accident, his neck was broken and his wife left with his children. At 44 he hanged himself on his broken neck.
Landscape
1927-1928
Garden in Sochi
1940-1941
"The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my world view."
Waterfall
1943