The D Grubu (English: ''Group D''), is an artist collective founded in Istanbul, Turkey in 1933 by five painters (
Zeki Faik İzer Zeki as Turkish masculine name and may refer to:
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* Zeki Akar (born 1944), Turkish judge
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* Zeki Demirkubuz (born ...
,
Nurullah Berk,
Elif Naci,
Cemal Tollu,
Abidin Dino) and one sculptor (
Zühtü Müridoğlu). The group is considered Turkey's first contemporary art movement.
1930's
The group is the fourth fine arts collective established in Turkey after the
Ottoman Painters Society ( tr, Osmanlı Ressamlar Cemiyeti),
Fine Arts Union (''Güzel Sanatlar Birliği''/''Sanayi Nefise Birliği''), and
Independent Painters and Sculptors Association (''Müstakil Ressamlar ve Heykeltıraşlar Birliği''). Getting the idea from this,
Nurullah Berk recommended that they call themselves after the fourth letter of the alphabet, "D".
Artist
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu and his wife
Eren Eyüboğlu
Eren Eyüboğlu ( née Ernestine Leibovici; 1913–1988) was a Romanian-born Turkish painter, ceramicist, and mosaic artist. She is considered one of the forerunners of modernism in Turkey.
Biography
Ernestine Leibovici was born on 5 February ...
participated D Grubu art exhibitions starting in 1936.
From an artistic perspective, their aims were to reject
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...
, and inspired by
Cubist and
Constructivist to establish a strong basis for patterns.
References
Artist groups and collectives
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