AN EXAMPLE OF CONTEMPORARY TURKISH PAINTING: İBRAHİM ÇALLI

Abstract

Due to the negative situations in domestic and foreign politics in the middle of the 19th century, the state; goes towards economic and social collapse. Thus, despite the negativities in the country and abroad, important reforms and revisions began to be made in most institutions and organizations. In the field of art, the art spectrum is expanded with foreign teachers brought from abroad. Talented students are discovered through their work in the field of art and sent abroad after undergoing the necessary training. Thus, it is ensured that the students sent abroad learn and follow the new developments related to the popular arts of the period and deeply affecting the society.  Developments in Turkish art and Impressionism that left its mark on the period until the period of the Republic of Turkey, which was born from the Ottoman Empire and its ashes, which was in great change and underwent major revisions in many of its institutions, but aimed to become a contemporary and modern country with a completely different state administration. The painting life of İbrahim Çallı, one of the representatives of the movement, which started from his childhood, is told.  İbrahim Çallı, in addition to his works in which impressionist influences are felt deeply, shows that he is in a constant change in his paintings with the stylistic differences in his works. The artist, who did not give up painting until the last years of his life; He also depicts the troubled processes and the struggle for liberation in his country during his lifetime. The thick brush strokes in his paintings and the diversity in the color scale are among the most important stylistic features. He does not hesitate to use hard and thick brush strokes while transferring his composition to the canvas. The painter

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Keywords: İbrahim, Çallı, Contemporary Turkish Painting Art, Empresyonizm, Painting, Art