The body image on neo expressionist painting in Turkey

In the 20th century, in three different time zone, the movement of Expressionism which has emerged in the form of Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism and Neo Expressionism has always been accepted as the intellectual tendency of an artist centered narration. This mentality reflecting like a rebellion to the era which was so widespread has appeared in the begining of 1900's in Germany. Expressionism, has presented a narration of language which reflects the erudition, the feeling and the pain in the inner world of the artists especially in the post war periods.The artists of that period defending that a realistic pictural behaviour can not catch the soul of the object, have created works in colourist manner by ascending the soul of the objects and distorting. This mentality repeating itself under the name of Neo Expressionism in 1980's, have given rise to the rebirth of painting against the process which has been exprienced by conceptual basis and keeping art away from the paint in the years between 1960-1980 and brought back the longing for painting, colour and canvas. By this postmodern approach, figurative works have been gained by adding many other techniques in diverse disciplines in the paintings. Concurently, neo Expressionism also appearing in Turkey, has found a place in different narrations until today. The progress of the painting in figurative meaning and the dialogue with the body image in this research: the reflections to the post and today's art by the process until the New Expressionism have been examined. In the figurative tendencies in Turkish painting, the research has been detailed by giving examples from the the artist and his worksthrough the expression of the body image.