City images in Turkish paintings during Republican Era

Cities may be considered as one of the most important constructs that reflects cultural accumulation of the mankind who are forced to live together at a certain location. City is defined in different ways by different authors. A general description of the word `City? in geographical terminology dictionary would be defined as a settlement area in which trading, mining, administrational and educational duties are gathered together and a big settlement area effecting its surroundings in consideration of the dominant dutie.Since the 19th century in the name of modernisation, there has been a lot of progressive movements like romanticism, naturalism, impressionism, cubism, futurism and surrealism. City images appearing in lanscape paintings have achieved being painting themes alone.After the decleration of the new republic in our country, leaps in artistic subjects and the trips of the artists in Turkey to other countries have given them the chance to reflect the things they have seen at new destinations to their own art and they succeeded. Just like their colleagues they have made lots of lanscape paintings containing city images which differ from one another. This was expanding the turkish paintig limits by adding diversity and also giving us clues about the living style, economical state and the cultural developments of time the paintings were made. Hikmet Onat?s ?Ankara?dan? painting done in the year 1928 which demonstrates Ankara being viewed as a town could be given as an example.Important painters such as Nazmi Ziya Güran, İbrahim Çallı, Hikmet Onat, Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Namık İsmail, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Fikret Mualla and Sami Yetik have not only created the Modern Turkish Art but also earned to become inspiration sources to new Turkish painters.In the light of the movements and works taking place in this study, 10 projects are presented in which the feelings of isolation and loneliness at social spaces and the complexity of the city brought by the effects of the urbanization after the industrialization is observed.