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As individual preference savage idea and primitivism in painting

2011
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Advisor: Yrd. Doç. Rasim Özgür

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Alienation is the most important problematic of the modern people in the social life. The Reactive reflection of the fact in modern art is primitivism and expressionism that externalize of expression. The emotional reactive attitude which begun with Romantics after the Industrial revolution has reflected as Primitivism and Expressionism in plastic arts after The World War I. and II. periods.Another factor that mark the Primitivism is the perception colonial life and culture as an alternative of modern life crisis. Petroglyps and figuration of Oceanic and African primitives are source of inspiration in the context of pureness and conversance of expression for modern artists . Modernism and consumption culture that are reflection of bourgeois culture in plastic arts include freedom and existence irony based on money under the discourse of freedom. Today, the state of the art institution is shaped out by the dynamics of the market economy. The fragmentation that appears in Today?s art which adopts the method of production of subjective expressions brings the Alienation, the concept confusion.In this context, for the chaos by the consistent subjective expression in the pictorial art, the cave drawings which are drawed by the primitives for comunication issues are suggested as a solution in the aspect of subjective approach. Cave drawings were referenced for the realization of the pictures. The artists who were reviewed for the thesis were selected within in the artists who had personal stance on existence and alienation problematic and personal influence and resolved expressionism.

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Dr. Özgür Tosun

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Özgür Tosun (Proficiency in Art Thesis). As individual preference savage idea and primitivism in painting, 2011, Dokuz Eylül University.

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