On March 8, International Working Women's Day, Istanbul Gelişim University brings art lovers together with the exhibition “Our Women Painters-1” by Painter and Lecturer Murat Karaova. In the exhibition; There are women painters who lived in the first years of the Republic period, left their mark on the art of painting and made a name for themselves.
Exhibition; was opened with the speech of Prof. Dr. Bahri Şahin, Rector of Istanbul Gelişim University, on March 8, International Working Women's Day. In his speech, Mr. Şahin touched upon the International Working Women's Day and said, “With the awareness that our women are the heroes behind the greatest happiness, who we are honored with their presence, who we are proud of, whose compassion we achieve, whose support we achieve, who shape the future of our society with the generations they raise, who give the love and compassion in their hearts to make us who we are. "I congratulate March International Women's Day," he said.
Then, the opening ceremony continued with the speech of Prof. Dr. İsmet Çavuşoğlu, an academic member of the Graphic Design Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Istanbul Gelişim University, who undertook the curatorship of the exhibition "Our Women Artists - I", giving general information about the exhibition and the works. In her speech, Çavuşoğlu said, “I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the women in the gallery, as the curator, on March 8, International Working Women's Day. Everywhere is beautiful with women, women are beautiful at any age. I would like to share with you one of Atatürk's women's day messages: everything in the world is the work of women.
Finally, Istanbul Gelişim University Faculty of Fine Arts Dean Prof. Dr. Şükran Güzin Ilıcak Aydınalp said, “I congratulate the women's day of women who exist and will continue to exist in all areas of life. I would like to thank all the women who worked with me for their efforts” and expressed their feelings and thoughts.
“Istanbul Gelisim University Signed Another Meaningful Exhibition”
Painter and Lecturer Murat Karaova featured Semiha Berksoy, Mihri Müşfik, Şükriye Dikmen, Neşe Erdok, Eren Eyüboğlu, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Güzin Duran and Hale Asaf in her works as part of the “Our Women Painters-1” exhibition. The exhibition, which features painter Turkish women who lived in the first years of the Republic and achieved success despite difficulties, met with art lovers on March 8.
Istanbul Gelisim University digned under another meaningful exhibition with the exhibition of women painters who achieved success despite the impossibilities. “Our Women Painters-1 series covers some of our important female artists who had a significant place and effort in Turkish art history and lived in the first years of the Republic.
Artists in the exhibition “Our Women Painters-1”
In this meaningful exhibition, which will meet with visitors on March 8, International Working Women's Day, Karaova presented his works to 8 female artists. The information about the women painters, who have left their mark on the art of painting from the Republican period to the present, and which Karaova has included in his works, is given below:
Semiha Berksoy: Known as the "woman of firsts", Berksoy is the first Turkish opera singer, a primadonna, the first Turkish soprano and painter to appear on the opera stage in Europe.
Mihri Müşfik: She is one of our first female painters. Müşfik, who left Istanbul in the early 1900s and continued her education by going to Rome and then Paris, painted names such as Atatürk, F. D. Roosevelt, Edison, Edwin Markham, D'anunzio as a portrait artist.
Şükriye Dikmen: Before graduating from the art history department of the Ecole du Louvre in Paris in 1953, Dikmen worked with Fernand Léger for 3 years and with Sergier and Roger Chastel for 2 years. She opened his first personal exhibition in .
Neşe Erdok: Known as a painter, academician, professor of fine arts, Erdok has her paintings in various museums and private collections in Turkey and abroad, including Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul State Painting and Sculpture Museum, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Norton Simon Museum. took place. Erdok participated in more than 100 group exhibitions with her works.
Eren Eyüboğlu: She developed his painting education at the Andre Lhote workshop in Paris. He opened his first exhibition in Paris in 1933. She took part in the Edinburgh Festival in 1957 and the Hamburg Turkish Women Painters Exhibition in 1958 with her works. She opened her first solo exhibition in Istanbul in 1941. Besides painting, she was also interested in ceramics. She has works in the Painting and Sculpture Museum, in the National Library collection, in many official and private collections.
Fahrelnissa Zeid: Fahrünnisa is an artist who exhibits her works all over the world. She had exhibitions in Istanbul on different dates. After two exhibitions in which her works were exhibited in 1944 and 1946, an exhibition in the academy of fine arts in 1964 and the exhibition in the Hittite Museum in Ankara in the same year attracted great attention. There are paintings bearing her signature in the few museums of the world. Fahrünnisa Zeyd was influenced by every branch and movement of painting in her works, and produced unique works with the knowledge she brought to her art.
Güzin Duran: Duran, who is the protector of calligraphy and cults of Istanbul in her works; While he mainly focused on landscapes and still lifes, she also worked on portraits and nudes. She also created a porcelain collection, working on calligraphy and ornaments. Duran has more than two hundred watercolor paintings in the Topkapı Museum Painting Collection.
Hale Asaf: She is one of our first female Turkish painters. Asaf, who took painting lessons at the Istanbul Fine Arts Academy, went to Paris (1927) after graduating from the Academy and benefited from the works of painters such as Matisse and Raoul Dufy. When she returned to Turkey, she worked as an art teacher in Bursa and organized her first exhibition in Ankara Ethnography Museum in 1929.
The exhibition will remain open to the audience until the end of the month.
