Untitled

Arshile Gorky's painting titled 'Untitled' is an important commentary on the American 20th-century art scene. Known as one of the pioneering minds that forged Abstract expressionism, his work is a crucial representation of an inherently abstract movement. Guided by the imprints of his own traumatic past, as a survivor of the Armenian genocide, Gorky's 'Untitled' reveals the tragedy and raw emotion he carried to the United States. In conjunction with figures such as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky's masterful use of the abstract elevated him to the ranks of America's artistic giants.