From Orientalism to Contemporary Turkish Painting

This book specializes in showing the universal dimension of Turkish Painting thru its history and its transition period. The art of painting developed at certain phases of Turkish history, either on the walls or on the pages of a book. European painting shows a similar course of development until the Rennaissance whereafter oil on canvas took the lead, gradually rendering European Painting its pivotal role. This book clearly shows, that the Ottoman Empire has not disregarded the developments in European painting, though within the framework of a Palace Art. On the other hand, European painting has produced its own 'Orientalist swarm', picturing eastern figures, places and themes with a limitless phantasm. Turkish artists were influenced by the techniques, the orientalist European artists used, but they developed a different sensitivity in the selection of their subjects including Osman Hamdi. As this book emphasizes the general development of Turkish painting, it gives rich information on the artists, on their initial works; on the art of painting appearing before the public thru royal exhibitions; on the inclusion of the human figure and portrait in landscape painting; on the effects of the First World War and the Turkish War of Independence and finally on the Contemporary Turkish Painting of the Republican Era, also by using a wide spectrum of visual material.

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