The event, which was held online within the scope of Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) Language, Thought and Literature Club activities, was held with the participation of many students and academicians from IGU Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Department of Literature.
Emphasizing that the reading of a work should be evaluated in a more important place today, Hergül stated that reading paintings also show parallelism with important issues of today's new media such as "media literacy" and "hypersexuality". He stated that with the awareness of these new media concepts, the ability of today's individual to read an image or text can be no different than reading a painting.
After this introduction, Hergül underlined that besides reading the work, the artist should be read first, and evaluated the political, social, ethnic, scientific, and artistic aspects of the Renaissance through Hans Holbein's own life. In this context, the German artist immigrated to England as a result of the political conditions he was in during the Reform movements, he met another Renaissance thinker, Thomas More, with the reference of Erasmus, one of the famous philosophers of the period, and the King of England VIII. Readings were made on the acceptance of Henry to his palace and the creation of a career that brought the artistic work of Albrecht Dürer, an important representative of the Northern European school, to its peak.
On the subject of "reading a work", the main theme requested by the Language, Thought and Literature Club, this time an analysis of a period was made through Holbein's "Ambassadors" painting. It was first announced that both figures in the painting were two young ambassadors who had an important place in the international politics of the period. Afterward, the presentation continued on the Google Arts and Culture application, and a reading was made on the objects in the work in high resolution, and it was emphasized that these objects express the “Humanist” individual of the period. Stating that each object here describes the seven free (liberal) arts by art historians, Hergül also conveyed that these arts form the basis of today's modern university concept. In addition, he had the participants experience the anamorphosis skull drawing, which has an important place in the history of art, through the 3D Paint program.
The event was attended by students with questions and answers, as well as Ahmet Özel from the Faculty of Fine Arts; Nazire Gamze Ilıcak from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, who is the consultant of Şerefnur Atik and Language, Thought and Literature Club; It ended with the contributions of Pelin Ekşi, Head of Turkish Language and Literature Department, and the comments of Club President Musab Doga. The repeat of the program can be accessed on the YouTube channel "Language, Thought and Literature".
