Bare, Naked, Nude: A Story of Modernization in Turkish Painting. 25 November 2015 - 07 February 2016
Bare, Naked, Nude: A Story of Modernization in Turkish Painting aims to reveal the transformation from the Ottoman Empire into the Republican Era and how the few secretly made paintings at the turn of the 20th century created a new perspective for present times. The exhibition focuses on how artists strived to overcome the cultural resistance against artistic representations of nudity. Bare, Naked, Nude further explores: the evolution of the ‘artist’ from being a ‘subject’ to the Sultan to becoming an ‘individual,’ the pains of transitioning from one mindset to another; the struggle of identity between the artist and the ‘Muslim-Turk’.
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