Şadi Çalık (1917

Heraklion Heraklion or Iraklion ( ; el, Ηράκλειο, , ) is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit. It is the fourth largest city in Greece with a population of 211,370 (Urban A ...

– 24 December 1979 Izmir) was a

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sculptor. He is famous for his

abstract sculpture Modern sculpture is generally considered to have begun with the work of Auguste Rodin, who is seen as the progenitor of modern sculpture. While Rodin did not set out to rebel against the past, he created a new way of building his works. He "dissolv ...

. Çalık was born in Heraklion, on the island of

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, in 1917. In 1923, during the

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, he moved to Izmir with his family. Between 1932 and 1939, he worked in the atelier of the painting teacher Abidin Elderoğlu in Izmir on drawing. In 1939, he started in the Sculpture Department of the Fine Arts Academy of Istanbul. In 1940, he created the first piece that was ordered from him, "Atbaşları". With many busts, he created, he showed that he could do quality work quickly and with ease. At the Fine Arts Academy, he was a student of

Rudolf Belling Rudolf Belling (26 August 1886 – 9 June 1972) was a German sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Artistic theories At the very beginning of the 20th century Rudolf Bel ...

between 1940 and 1948. From 1950 to 1951, he worked in Paris, France. He self funded his trip to Paris, where he learned much about sculpture, there he worked at the

Atelier at Rue Grand Chaumiere. He worked freelance until 1959, and then started teaching at the Fine Arts Academy. In 1971, he was appointed a professor there. He won several national sculpture competitions.

Style

In 1950, Çalık started to make abstract sculptures. He started with traditional classic sculpture and slowly moved more towards abstract sculpture with time.

Personal life

He married Müfide Cumalı, the sister of

Necati Cumalı Necati Cumalı (13 January 1921 – 10 January 2001) was a Turkish writer of novels, short-stories, essays and poetry. He was born in Florina, Greece to a Turkish family and his family had settled in Urla near İzmir in the framework of the 1 ...

, on 1 September 1951, and they moved to

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together. In 1952, their daughter, Siren, was born. Later, they also had a son, Osman Çalık. He was friends with the artists Cevat Şakir,

Sabahattin Eyüboğlu Sabahattin Eyüboğlu (1908 – January 13, 1973) was a Turkish people, Turkish writer, essayist, translator and film producer. Biography Sabahatttin Eyüboğlu was born in 1908 on the Black Sea coast town of Akçaabat near Trabzon. His fat ...

Azra Erhat '') , notable_works = Turkish translations of Homer's ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'' in collaboration with A. Kadir ( tr); Turkish translations of Hesiod's ''Theogony'' and ''Works and Days'' as well as works of Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, and Sap ...

İlhan Koman İlhan Koman (June 17, 1921 – December 30, 1986) was a Turkish people, Turkish sculptor. Between 1951 and 1958, he worked at the Istanbul Fine Arts Academy, before moving to Sweden in 1959. His distinct style of mixing science and art in his ...

and others.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Calik, Sadi 1917 births Artists from Heraklion Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul alumni Turkish male sculptors Academic staff of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University 1979 deaths Greek emigrants to Turkey