biography
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Gorky, Arshile
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originally Vosdanig Manoog Adoian
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–48)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Khorkom Vari, Turkish Armenia. He emigrated in 1920, and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and in Boston. He combined ideas and images derived from Surrealism and Biomorphic art, and played a key role in the emergence of the New York school of abstract Expressionists in the 1940s. |
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