The visual analysis on the power concept

Art has always known how to keep its effectuality on the distance it has covered up to now starting from first groups of people. Art, which has the quality of social memory, has had an effective role in shaping the characters in the fields especially sociologic, psychological and economic fields in the periods it has passed. Art?s capability of creation perception in the eye of individual and society associates the art to power. Power? motive of dominance all over the society paradoxically supports this association. That power can not be confined in only one plane causes the variation of the ways of association to art. We study the connection between power and art according to the characteristic properties of historical process in this study named visual analysis over power. We include power which is a broad research subject, its creation styles, the elements it bases on and different ideas? perspectives to the Power as a contribution in our study. We try to reflect close contact between power, more sophisticated in the process of time and art together with modern period with certain visual works of the artists in that period .We research the effects of the incidents, historic moments in the process of human being?s existence, over the power and art, and how the social crisis effect art and power. In the first part of our study, we put emphasis on the word meaning of the power, what the `power? reserve as a notion and the words, strength and authority which are used as synonyms with power. Michel Foucault?s thoughts about power.In the second part of the study, we try to scrutinize the association between power and art, the potency of religion over the art, the way of association between capitalism and art with the modern period, capitalism?s struggles of global branding in the art and as a last, power and art?s effect on gender. In the third part, the association between art and power and the visual workshops are commented in different ways. As a result the workshops are analyzed conceptually.Key Words1- Power2- Art3- Authority4- Ability5- Women