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List Of Turkish Artists
This is a list of notable Turkish artists. A * Kuzgun Acar (1928-1976), sculptor * Haluk Akakçe (born 1970), contemporary artist * Onay Akbaş (born 1964), contemporary artist * Ahmet Ziya Akbulut (1869–1938), painter * Mehmet Aksoy (sculptor) (born 1939), sculptor * Halil Altındere (born 1971), contemporary artist * Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin (1957-2007), contemporary artist * Avni Arbaş (1919–2003), painter * Burak Arıkan (born 1976), contemporary artist * Hale Asaf (1905–1938), painter * Tomur Atagok (born 1939), painter and professor * Ruzen Atakan (born 1966), Turkish-Cypriot painter B * İbrahim Balaban (1921-2019), painter * Bedri Baykam (born 1957), painter * Turgut Berkes (1953-2018), rock musician, painter and writer * Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1910), painter, archaeologist and curator C * Taner Ceylan (born 1967), contemporary artist * Hüseyin Çağlayan (born 1970), contemporary artist and fashion designer * Sevgi Çağal (born 1957), painter and scu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notability
Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibility, accomplishments, or, even, mere participation in the celebrity industry are said to have a public profile. The concept arises in the philosophy of aesthetics regarding aesthetic appraisal.Aesthetic Appraisal', Philosophy (1975), 50: 189–204, Evan Simpson There are criticisms of art galleries determining monetary valuation, or valuation so as to determine what or what not to display, being based on notability of the artist, rather than inherent quality of the art work. Notability arises in decisions on coverage questions in journalism. Marketers and newspapers may try to create notability to create celebrity, fame, or notoriety, or to increase sales, as in the yellow press. The privileged class are sometimes called notables, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osman Hamdi Bey
Osman Hamdi Bey (30 December 1842, in Istanbul 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is regarded as the pioneer of the curator, museum curator's profession in Turkey. He was the founder of Istanbul Archaeology Museums and of the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts (:tr:Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi, Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi in Turkish language, Turkish), known today as the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He was also the first mayor of Kadıköy. Early life Osman Hamdi was the son of Ibrahim Edhem Pasha, an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Grand Vizier (in office 1877–1878, replacing Midhat Pasha) who was originally a Greeks, Greek boy from the Ottoman island of Sanjak of Sakız, Sakız (Chios) orphaned at a very young age following the Chios massacre there. He was adopted by Kapudan Pasha, Kaptan-ı Derya (Grand Admiral) Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha, Hüsrev P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipek Duben
Ipek Duben (born 1941) is a contemporary visual artist based in Istanbul. She produces artist books, poetry, installations, video, painting and sculpture. Her work deals with identity issues, feminism, and migration with a strong emphasis on social and political criticism. Besides actively producing and exhibiting art,Duben also has numerous published essays and books on art and criticism.Her work has been shown in international institutions including ), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2022), Kunstraum Keuzberg/Bethanien (2022), Social Works,Frieze London (2018), Brighton Festival (2017), Fabrica, Brighton UK (2017), SALT Galata, Istanbul (2015), British Museum, London (2014), 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013), Istanbul Modern (2011, 2009), The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., (2010) and Akademie der Künst, Berlin (2009). In 2015, SALT published a collection of her essays on art and criticism written between 1978 and 2010. Education Ipek Duben earned he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burhan Doğançay
Burhan C. Doğançay (11 September 1929 – 16 January 2013) was a Turkish-American artist. Doğançay is best known for tracking walls in various cities across the world for half a century, integrating them in his artistic work. Biography Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Burhan Dogançay obtained his artistic training from his father Adil Doğançay, and Arif Kaptan, both well-known Turkish painters. In his youth, Dogançay played on the Gençlerbirliği football (soccer) team. In 1950, he received a law degree from the University of Ankara. While enrolled at the University of Paris between 1950–1955, from where he obtained a doctorate degree in economics, he attended art courses at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. During this period he continued to paint regularly and to show his works in several group exhibitions. Soon after his return to Turkey, he participated in many exhibitions, including joint exhibitions with his father at the Ankara Art Lovers Club. Following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abidin Dino
Abidin Dino (23 March 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a Turkish artist and a well-known painter. Early years Dino was born on 23 March 1913 in Istanbul into an art-loving family. He was grandchild of Abedin Dino, Albanian descended Ottoman diplomat. He started drawing and painting at a young age influenced by his family. As a child he lived in Geneva, Switzerland and France for several years with his parents, returning to Istanbul in 1925. Dino began his secondary education at the American highschool Robert College of Istanbul, but dropped out to devote himself to painting, drawing and writing. His articles and cartoons were soon being published in newspapers and magazines, and in 1933 he and five other young innovative painters founded the “ D Group”, which held several exhibitions of their work. At around the same time, he illustrated Nazım Hikmet’s books of poetry. In 1933, the Soviet director Sergei Yutkevich, who had made a film about Ankara, invited Dino to the Lenfil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barış Dilaver
Barış Dilaver (born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1975) is a Turkish ballet dancer. (in Turkish) Early life Dilaver was born in Zeytinburnu, . As a child, he set his sights on a life as a pianist, and his twin sister imagined becoming a ballerina. After failing their respective auditions, the two swapped professions: she became a successful singer in her homeland, and he embarked on an international career as a dancer. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Şevket Dağ
Şevket Dağ (1876, Istanbul - 1944, Istanbul) was a Turkish painter, art teacher and politician. Although he painted in a wide variety of genres, he is perhaps best remembered for his interior portraits of major historical structures. Biography His father was a Navy captain. After attending the public schools, he enrolled at the "Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi" (Academy of Fine Arts, now part of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University), where he studied with Osman Hamdi Bey and Alexander Vallaury; graduating in 1897. In 1902, he found employment as a teacher in the "Rüştiye" schools (Western-style schools established during the tanzimat), working throughout Istanbul, as well as in Aksaray. Later, he taught at Galatasaray High School. One of his students there was Fikret Muallâ Saygı, who would later be among Turkey's first avant-garde painters. He also taught at the Dar-ül Muallimin (the Istanbul Normal School). In 1909, he was one of the founders of the "Ottoman Painters' Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gürkan Coşkun
Gürkan Coşkun (1941 – 22 September 2022) or more widely known as Komet was a Turkish painter. Coşkun was born in Çorum Çorum () (Medieval Greek: Ευχάνεια, romanized: Euchaneia) is a northern Anatolian city that is the capital of the Çorum Province of Turkey. Çorum is located inland in the central Black Sea Region of Turkey, and is approximately from ... in 1941. After attending İstanbul State Academy of Fine Arts between the years 1960 and 1967, he moved to Paris in 1971. He split his time between the two cities. His work is exhibited in various countries and is very respected in his home town. In his paintings, he most often blended fantasy and reality. References External links CastYourArt Videoportrait of Komet 1941 births 2022 deaths Turkish painters People from Osmancık {{Turkey-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Cosentino (artist)
Antonio Cosentino (born 1970) is a Turkish contemporary artist of Italian origin living and working in Istanbul. Primarily a painter, Cosentino's work also encompasses sculpture, installation, writing and photography. Education Graduated from the Painting Department of Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Faculty of Fine Arts in 1994. Work Cosentino's paintings are characterized by the vibrancy of colors and textures, "suffused with a sense of movement, driven by plot and character". Often engaged in storytelling across multiple media, Cosentino has focused on the subcultures and urban development in the city of Istanbul where he lives. Cosentino was among the three founders of the artists initiative Hafriyat in 1996, together with Hakan Gürsoytrak and Mustafa Pancar in an effort to break free from the rigidity and conservatism of the art establishment. In the next decade, the collective became a prominent actor in the Istanbul art scene with self-organized and politically eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nusret Çolpan
Nusret Çolpan (October 1, 1952 – May 31, 2008) was a Turkish people, Turkish painter, architect and miniaturist, renowned for his paintings in Ottoman miniature style depicting cities around the world, particularly Istanbul. He painted over 300 miniatures in his 30-year career. Life and work Nusret Çolpan was born in 1952 in Bandirma; he attended high school in Zincirlikuyu Meslek Lisesi and worked as a waiter and at a newsstand. Çolpan's talent for painting was recognized before he moved to Istanbul. He became locally recognised for his microscopically detailed drawings of mosques on wooden spoons. On the advice of Dr Suheyl Unver (to whom he was introduced by his uncle Ali Oztaylan) he studied in the Department of Architecture at Yıldız Technical University. There he was taught by Unver and Azade Akar, two of the leading authorities in Turkish illumination and miniature painting of the time. Subsequently, he worked on Ottoman illumination in a small atelier with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adnan Çoker
Adnan Coker (; 20 October 1927 – 22 August 2022) was a Turkish abstract artist.)(English mention states "Turkish artists such as abstract masters Devrim Erbil and Adnan Coker") Coker was born in Süleymaniye in Istanbul on 20 October 1927. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul in 1951 and won the European Concourt Prize in 1955. He went on to study in Paris on a scholarship from the Turkish state. In Paris, he worked at the studios of André Lhote, Henri Goetz, and Hayter, as well as at the Emilio Vedova Studio at the International Salzburg Summer Academy. Coker died on 22 August 2022, at the age of 94. Career Coker was an instructor at the İstasyon Academy of Fine Arts İstasyon Academy of Fine Arts (in Turkish İstasyon Sanat Akademisi ) is a private art institution founded by architect Ömer Ferda Düzenli and artist/painter Hülya Düzenli in Fındıklı, İstanbul in 1980. Artists Nurullah Berk and Sabr ... from 1960 to 1995. He performed dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevin Çokay
Nevin Çokay (born 1930-July 24, 2012) was a Turkish painter and high school teacher of art and history of art. Life Çokay was born in Istanbul, and spent her childhood in different regions of Turkey. In 1947, she started to attend to the studio of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu at the Academy of Fine Arts Istanbul, where she finished in 1953. She also joined The Group Ten. Her first exhibition took place in the Gallery "Maya" in Istanbul in 1953. Between 1950 and 1953 she was a member of the State Choir for Turkish folk music under the direction of Nedim Otyam. Beside her participation in concerts and folklore arrangements she also worked as a voice artist and acted in the film ''Yurda Dönüş''. After 1954 Çokay completely devoted herself to painting. Her paintings were shown in special exhibitions of the State Museum for Painting and Sculptures Istanbul and the Biennale for Young Artist in Paris. In 1961 she won the second prize of the Istanbul Art Festival. In 1979 she was inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
