Pictorial narratives about women

Gender roles begin to be imposed on the person, just like coding, from the moment the individual is born. Everywhere, an individual is expected to behave appropriately in line with their gender. In this context, gender roles become a situation that affects the self and mind of the person. From past to present, the concept of femininity and masculinity, the images of both sexes, the characteristics defined for them, the status, the division of labor between the sexes have always been encountered throughout history. Gender identities and the formation processes of these identities, how the relations between the sexes are organized, family types, kinship relations, attitudes and behaviors of the sexes towards each other, sexual morality, many writers and artists are involved in the social psychology of the individual who processes women who are put in the background and marginalized in their works and who create themselves with their art. mentioned in his work. For example, in Leyla Erbil's novels, it has been seen that women's gender, sexuality, and sexual hierarchy are handled in the works of artists and writers such as Hale Tenger, Nur Koçak, Şükran Moral, Gözde İlkin, Gina Pane, Gülsün Karamustafa, Shirin Neshat, Orlan and more. Storytelling, which has its roots in storytelling and is one of the oldest ways of transferring knowledge, also has an essential place in the artist's self-expression. Mythology and history, the work of storytellers, is undoubtedly based on words. However, the painters, sculptors, and stage artists who visualize these stories enliven them with their works and turn them into an artistic phenomenon. Thus, on the one hand, they make invaluable contributions to existence by documenting what has happened from the creation of man to this day. The story is in life. It is the works of the artists to pull it out of dozens of daily, worthless, ordinary events, objects, and concepts and transform it into something else. In this dissertation titled "Pictorial Narratives About Women", the roles imposed on women show how women are expressed in art, identity, social role, social interaction, gender, and socialization. At the same time, the positioning of women and women artists in society has been critically discussed by giving place to the artists who have produced works on this subject. In the personal and original works carried out together, the technique, content, the effort of women to exist in art as a subject, and their socio-psychological situation were revealed and interpreted by narrating. Keywords: Women, art, women in art, gender, narration