Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken (Dec 2014)
NEW TRENDS AND CONCEPTUAL PURSUITS IN TURKISH PAINTING: 1960 – 1980
Abstract
Although the rooted/radical basis of the Westernization/innovation phase, meaning the Turkish modernization, which starts in the middle of the 19th century, has started between 1923-1938, the period starting from the end of the second world war and respired in 1980 is the most important period on account of the Western social, political and cultural norms reaching to all of the layers of the community. During this process in which countless social and political events have happened; The ‘desire for innovation’ programmed and practiced by the ‘public will power’ has started to be seen as the choice and the right of the ‘individual’ during these years with the factors such as increasing the political , socio-economic and cultural interactions by establishing alliances with Western nations and making a liberal constitution after the 1960 revolution. Within this frame, the painting artists have entered into these ‘new trends’ and ‘conceptual pursuits’ by benefiting from this formed ‘new accultration process’, by doing so that they don’t fall to the same mistakes like the old generation artist who are tightly connected to the traditional system and belongings. With this article, the Turkish painter’s developing new creative dynimics and their pursuit of the ‘new’, during the process between the two revolutions which left deep traces on the Turkish community will be held.
