Aircraft figure in the art of painting

For centuries, one of the greatest activities that has attracted the attention of mankind has been 'flying'. The desire to fly sometimes embellished people's dreams, and sometimes made plans to realize the act of flying. In the end, mankind has succeeded in transforming the desire to fly into action by making many different tools. Thanks to the actions of flying, especially in the last century, air travel between cities and countries has been carried to a very advanced level, and information about planets and space has been reached thanks to the actions of flying in the field of space research. In the future, the desire for individual transportation by air will bring along new flight actions. Looking at the historical process, one of the Muslim scholars Abbas Ibn Firnas did flight studies, Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi wore his own designed wings on his arms and flew from Galata Tower to Üsküdar for a while with a rocket designed by Lagari Hasan Çelebi himself. It was seen that he was able to stay in the air. At the beginning of the 20th century, Vecihi Hürkuş, Emrullah Ali Yıldız, Nuri Demirağ and Baykar Bayraktar contributed to significant developments in aircraft and air transportation. The idea of flying has been turned into action by many people in the countries of the world. Renaissance period artist Leonardo Da Vinci made designs on flying based on the flight patterns and wings of birds, Otto Lilienthal was involved in flight studies, and at the beginning of the 20th century, the Wright Brothers produced the first powered airplane and succeeded in flying. As the desire to fly began to return to action with scientific developments, it started to be the subject of art works by artists. Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings on flight were the first noteworthy artistic drawings, and during the production of powered airplanes and especially the use of warplanes in World War I and World War II, airplane figures began to appear on canvases by painters. As passenger transportation started to take place in the lives of the majority of the society, aircraft became the focus of attention among the society. Artists were naturally affected by these developments. In the art of painting, the idea of flying and the figures of the plane took place quite a lot. Today, it has been felt necessary to gather together the works of flying and the figure of an airplane in the art of painting, and this thesis study on the subject has been revealed. In this context, studies on the subject were researched and brought together and interpreted within the scope of the study. In addition, application studies related to the subject were also carried out. In this thesis titled "Airplane Figure in Painting", the subject, purpose, importance, limitation and method of the thesis are given in the Introduction section. In the Conceptual Framework section, the historical process of the return of the desire to fly to the act of flying was mentioned, the development of the act of flying was explained, starting from the Renaissance Period and continuing with the works of Leonardo Da Vinci, and especially Impressionism in the 20th century, Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, The studies on flying by the artists in the Abstract Art, Pop Art Art movements and the Contemporary Art process are mentioned. In the Findings and Comments section, there are works by Gerardo Dottori, Sonia Delaunay, Roy Lichenstein, Anselm Keifer and Philippe Vercellotti in Western Painting, Mehmet Gürbüz Gürer, Murat Ilgın, Osman Törer, Barış Sarıbaş and Nihat Evren Derman in Turkish Painting, who use airplane figures in their works. The plane figure in the field was evaluated artistically. In the last part called Application Studies, the studies within the scope of the thesis are evaluated and evaluated. Keywords: Flying, Airplane, Painting, Art.