The D Grubu (English: ''Group D''), is an artist collective founded in Istanbul, Turkey in 1933 by five painters (

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) 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,

recommended that they call themselves after the fourth letter of the alphabet, "D". Artist

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and his wife

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participated D Grubu art exhibitions starting in 1936. From an artistic perspective, their aims were to reject

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, and inspired by

Cubist Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...

and Constructivist to establish a strong basis for patterns.

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