THE FIGURES IN NESE ERDOK’S PAINTINGS AS A PART OF THE SOCIAL REALISM ART
Neşe Erdok was born on 26 August 1940 in Istanbul. After completing National Academy of Fine Arts in 1963, Erdok continued her studies in Spain between 1965-1966, and in France between 1967-1972. She started to work as an assistant in the Neşet Günal Workshop of Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fin...
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Fırat University
2021
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| Sumario: | Neşe Erdok was born on 26 August 1940 in Istanbul. After completing National Academy of Fine Arts in 1963, Erdok continued her studies in Spain between 1965-1966, and in France between 1967-1972. She started to work as an assistant in the Neşet Günal Workshop of Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts upon her return to Turkey. Erdok is a member of the generation of artists who brought a contemporary approach to figurative expression from the 1960s onwards.
Known for her paintings based on realistic figures, Erdok depicted people from all walks of life that include people she came across in a barber shop, on a ferry, or in the street. Deformation, particularly of the face, hands, and feet, plays a prominent role in Erdok’s works. Patterns take precedence over colour in her paintings. Erdok made use of larger canvases in order to highlight the theme. Her use of plain spaces created a style of expression that brought her subjects’ inner worlds to the foreground. She depicted her deformed figures in her unique style and way of expression. The artist revived the figures in a canvas size like the actors of a frozen moment in life in a calm interior. Traces of the figures’ experiences can be easily observed from their postures by audiences.The strong composition and strong pattern transfer in her Works made her paintings easier to understand. The artist used her self-portrait frequently in her paintings where she exhibited some sequences of her private life.
This study aims to examine the stylistic properties of Neşe Erdok’s paintings and emphasize her place and importance in Turkish art of painting. In the research, Nese Erdok’s paintings, which take part in the new art generation known as ‘the 1960s generation’ and put forth a contemporary perceptive on the figure interpretation, has been tried to interpret within the scope of the themes that she has discussed by years. In this research, the artist’s paintings have been approached with regard to form, theme and content. The art historian Erwin Panofsky’s iconology method has been channelled into the paintings’ interpretation. |
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