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Social, political and cultural artistic questioning via satirical illustrations

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2015
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Abstract (EN)

Humour is the most powerful weapon of people when the time that they can not express their thoughts under pressure. Humor opens the locked doors. Humour is the child of freedom… On the period of oppression when the ideas were exposed to any kind of censorship; jokes and wits being told ear to ear or drawings being passed from hand to hand, they become holy relics to the fidelity of memory and eyes. Those who come against oppression and struggle for freedom, benefit from the power of humour to demolish the oppression. The handcuff on humour and art will cause to social languish and vanishing. Illustration is a visual format that transmits the information as well as the message by converting them. It may be considered as a branch of realistic paint art which provides painting of exaggerated compositions or those can not be seen at nature and can not be fictionalized experimentally. Generally it can be drawn to support the advertorial, educational and fantastic narrations or designed as a work of art itself. Illustration as a branch of graphic arts aims inference of the people of all languages, races, and cultures needless of any other item. The main objective of it is to explain and clarify an idea more efficiently and effectively. The development of technology and the new worlds' rise of sectors, the graphic and illustration artists have chance to draw a new way in order to create individual styles and techniques which has had more opportunities rather than the past. Key Words: Graphic Design, Illustrations, Satirical, Humour, Design, Questioning, Wall advertisement, Protest, Activist.

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Fahriye Çıtaklı

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Fahriye Çıtaklı (Master Thesis). Social, political and cultural artistic questioning via satirical illustrations, 2015, İstanbul Arel University.

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