“COLOR LIGHT VIBRATION” TURKISH IMPRESSIONISTS

12 April 2018 – 27 July 2018

Born in France in the 19th century, Impressionism gradually penetrated Turkish art, and many prominent artists of Turkey produced impressionist artworks, particularly in the second half of the 20th century. The artists of the 1914 Generation, also known as Turkish Impressionists, witnessed the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire as well as the Second Constitutional Era when the urge for Westernization was revitalized. That made them the harbingers of the young Republic of Turkey. İbrahim Çallı, whose name became the nickname of this generation due to his popularity; Hikmet Onat, Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Feyhaman Duran, Namık İsmail, Mehmet Ruhi Arel and Sami Yetik, quite different from the preceding generation of painters, contributed to the art of painting by diversifying themes and pioneered for the promulgation of this.

“Color, Light, Vibration: The Turkish Impressionists” exhibition gives the center stage to the artists of the 1914 Generation without losing sight of the artworks of the painters of preceding and following periods. The exhibition thus brings together painters of three generations, showing outstanding examples of Turkish painting during the transition from the Empire to the Republic.

AKDİK, Şeref
Ali Halil
AREL, Mehmet Ruhi
ASAF, Osman
BEN’İM, Ali Cemal
BEREKETOĞLU, Hasan Vecih
BEYAZIT, Ali Rıza
BOYAR, Ali Sami
BOYAR, Pertev
BOZCALI, Sabiha Rüştü
ÇALLI, İbrahim
ÇEKLİ, Nazmi
ÇİZEL, Hayri
DAĞ, Şevket
Diyarbakırlı Tahsin
DOĞANÇAY, Adil
DURAN, Feyhaman
ECEVİT, Nazlı
EKİNCİ, Melahat
ERKUL, Cevat
GÖRELE, Hamit
GÜLERYÜZ, Bedia
GÜRAN, Nazmi Ziya
GÜRPINAR, Nurettin
Halid Naci
Halife Abdülmecid
Halil Paşa
Hoca Ali Rıza
Hüseyin Zekai Paşa
İsmail Hakkı
İzzet Ziya
KALMUKOĞLU, Naci
KAPTAN, Arif
Kaymakam Remzi
KÖSEOĞLU, Edip Hakkı
LAGA, Mehmet Ali
LİFİJ, Hüseyin Avni
LİM, Sami
Namık İsmail
ONAT, Hikmet
ÖZEREN, Saim
SAFİ, İbrahim
SOFU, Melek Celal
SOYHAN, Fuad
SÜMER, Ayetullah
TEOMAN, Selahattin
UZEL, Celal
ÜREN, Eşref
YETİK, Sami