Gorky’s The Artist and His Mother
I don’t like that word, “finish.” When something is finished, that means it’s dead, doesn’t it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting—I just stop working on it for a while. –Arshile Gorky, 1948 In March 1919, 14-year-old Vosdanig Manoog Adoian watched his mother starve to death, one of countless victims of the […]