ABSTRACT ART AND TURKEY

Abstract

As the change in mentality that begun during the second half of the 19 th century and continued at the beginning of the 20th century was focused on the essential meaning of the object, the object cannot be assumed as the reality that is comprehended sentimentally only. Also the artist?s mind that inclines towards the background of the comprehended reality maintains an intellectual attitude against the object. The intellectual comprehension of the object causes the optic illusion to be removed and some of the artists convert the painting merely into an abstract construction. The abstract art was seen affectively after the Second War World in Paris. As the abstract trends in Paris influenced our painters, the increase of the experiments on abstract art could be seen during the 1950?s in Turkey.