Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The Art of Language or The Language of Art, and Discourse

Hi All,
This week we studied "Discourse Analysis". Here's your homework: You have 2 weeks to complete your assignment.

1. Visit an art museum (Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Pera Art Museum, etc.)

2. Tell us which exhibition you visited. Analyze the artists' language. Try to explain how the artists are expressing the meaning without using a verbal or non-verbal language. Are they any successful and how they succeed to express the meanings they have in their mind? Exemplify by artists' and their works' names.

3. Post your comments to our blogger.

İstanbul Modern Art Museum (free-admission on Thursdays) (in Tophane)http://www.istanbulmodern.org/tr/f_index.html

Sakıp Sabancı Art Museum (in Emirgan)
http://muze.sabanciuniv.edu/

Pera Art Museum (in Taksim)
http://www.peramuzesi.org.tr/

Good Luck,

tuncer can

28 comments:

Anonymous said...

wrıtten

Anonymous said...

ther are lots ıof notebooks whıch belong to each dıfferent year.they are put ın a great order as the wrıtten notes ın theır pages.when,ı saw then,ı could see how those notebooks say,the owner of them was also orderly and planned busınessman.even only,ry lookıng those notebooks,the source of sakıp sabancı`s successes can be understood.lookıng only from thıs aspect,ıt can be seen how good dıscourse there ıs between sabancı`s notebooks and hıs planned lıfe.moreover,thıs dıscourse analysıs can be made wıthout usıng words,sentences,sounds.

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Anonymous said...

I visited Istanbul modern art museum,it was an interesting visit and it made me think broadly,I tried to get different meanings from the paints of the artists.From one painting various meanings and purposes can be taken by loooking its era,by trying to have some info about artists' life and by looking socio-cultural effects on this painting.Of course,I do not know the exact meaning of a painting because there is no primary resource but I tried to understand the purposes of artist's by looking from different aspects.
Foe example; one painting of Erol Akyava�(1932-1999),its name is 'The fall of the castle'(kalenin d��� and it is 1980's painting.In this painting,there is a castle and in it there are fingers,ears and teeth.At the left side of the castle,there are hills and at the right there are trees.These fingers,ears and teeth are most common in the center of the castle.As I have some background info about 1980's I made assumptions about the government and politics.I think,the hills on the left are a symbol for the leftists and the trees on the right are a symbol for the rightists.The fingers might be the symbol for the participants of the bad events happened in these years or they can be a symbol for the people who were tortured in these years.I think the artist wanted to paint the politics and I understand it thanks to my background of this topic and he had success in this painting,I suppose.In another painting,its artist is Utku Varl�k(1942)and the painting's name is 'Maskeli ilerliyorum',1996,there is a golden baby,there is a foetus,a face which looks as if it falled.Colours are yellow,blue and green.There is a face like a warrior and there is a face which is in pieces.I think this painting aims to explain the human's birth,life and death and also the struggle of the people(warrior).I understand it from different faces and thinking the people's changing faces along the life,the artist really achieves his aim.
There is another interesting painting from which I tried to get a wide meaning.It is a work of art of �eker Ahmed Pa�a(1841-1907).The painting's name is 'Still life with quinces',1904.There is a tree,on the top of the tree,there is vine;in the middle of the tree,on its trunk there are quinces and at the bottom there are falled quinces and pomegranates.I figured the tree as Ottoman Empire and the fruits as its different eras.I thought pomegranates as its first times,a lot of nationality,quinces are the middle parts of it and some of them are at the bottom and the vines are a new era for Ottoman Empire,there is an effect of Me�rutiyet.The artist used fruit to explain the general history of Ottoman Empire and I think,he reached his goal with a perfect success.
As you know,� tried to make assumptions with the help of critical thinking and my background info.I tried to make contact with these paintings and I achieved this without word without action and without a resource,and the artists have images in their mind and if you know how to look you can get the meanings of these images.Eventually I think this is DISCOURSE ANALYSIS.

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Anonymous said...

I went to ıstanbul modern art museum.There are excellent works there.I was affected much when I first entered.Its smell is also different.The best work for me was TURAN EROL`s portrait THE BOAT HULL.When I first saw it I thought that I saw the world.It is like pressed from both hemispheres and fat in the middle.I think the world tells our daily problems. Ewerythink impresses us.There are lots of problems.But there is a way to get rid of them.There is a light between in the middle of them.There is a way for freedom.However there are hardships to reach it.It is not easy.But evenlooking at it gives you a happines.It makes you struggle for it.
The boat is old.It is being build.There is a harmony of mixed things.When it combines with the sea you have to do nothing but only to watch it...
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Anonymous said...

Süleyman Seyyid(1842-1913)
Orange, 1895-1896

I visited Istanbul Modern Art Museum,too.
One of the paints is 'Orange' by Süleyman Seyyid.
Seyyid is painting an orange as if it is one of the most precious things that he could share with.
Maybe he wants to show his pure love to his beloved ones-his wife, his sun-taking great care while drawing every slice of the orange.
He says 'Even if I don't have expensive things as a gift, I can present this orange to you.'
We can see no hesitation in his strokes, because he has no doubt that he expresses his feelings sincerely.
The orange is just like his own life : modest, unostentatious..
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Anonymous said...

i ve been to istanbul modern art museum..i was impressed by some of the pictures,they all was amazing. but i didnt merely have a look,i explored about discourse,conveying of inner thoughts,telling what is want clearly purely without using any verbal or non verbal language..there were a place presenting the portraits of painters,they draw their faces in a way that they say i m depressed,cheerful,stubborn,easy going and whatnot with the use of lines and colours even shadow..how fantastic!there was a picture called 'four figures'if u look randomly u see four men body but examine it closely then u ll see the more men at the back of four main figure similarly each figure seems to represent a different model of human in all terms..
there was a picture called 3 man 4 woman and visitors which seems to be drawn by a person who loves to be marginal and also original:)when u first look into the picture u could see that the artist painted it is ve an aptitude for fiction..then i read about the artist and discovered that he is really original one the sentence describing him was 'The one who approaches the world of materials with a desire to challenge the properties that others might take seriously'..i hope u see what i mean:)
to sum up yes definitely what artist feel or wants to convey via his/her pictures is accomplished without any direct language..and i guess it is what really discourse is...
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Anonymous said...

I have visited Istanbul modern and pera art museums.I think,artists succeed in telling what they have in their minds with different ways in their paintings.
In pera,there was a picture painted by osman hamdi bey in 1906.Its name is kaplumbaga terbiyecisi.there is a man who turns to turtles and he has flute on his shoulder.at first I see him as a trainer but when I look in details,I found out that man is painter himself and he is not training turtles he is training people who are against innovations in his time.I think the reason that he resembles these people to turtles is their being too slow and their thick crusts.they are living isolated to world like people who are traditionalists.
And also there is a photo gallery of koudelka in pera.I like most the invasion photographs.in one of them,there is an old man in the middle of the photo at the back of him there are buildings which are ruined and people who are in despair.artist choose an old man for telling a situation that exists after invasion.without verbal languauge,I can understand invasion’s effects on people and what they are exposed to by simply looking at picture.
There is a picture which consists of only colours in istanbul art museum.they are scattered randomly as if they have no form and meaning.its name is kendi içinde bir dünya.I concluded that colours may refer to some emotions and feelings of humanbeings.(red maybe love or passion,black may be revenge etc.).and so the painter may tell us what his feelings while he paints the picture.

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Anonymous said...

I have visited Istanbul modern and pera art museums.I think,artists succeed in telling what they have in their minds with different ways in their paintings.
In pera,there was a picture painted by osman hamdi bey in 1906.Its name is kaplumbaga terbiyecisi.there is a man who turns to turtles and he has flute on his shoulder.at first I see him as a trainer but when I look in details,I found out that man is painter himself and he is not training turtles he is training people who are against innovations in his time.I think the reason that he resembles these people to turtles is their being too slow and their thick crusts.they are living isolated to world like people who are traditionalists.
And also there is a photo gallery of koudelka in pera.I like most the invasion photographs.in one of them,there is an old man in the middle of the photo at the back of him there are buildings which are ruined and people who are in despair.artist choose an old man for telling a situation that exists after invasion.without verbal languauge,I can understand invasion’s effects on people and what they are exposed to by simply looking at picture.
There is a picture which consists of only colours in istanbul art museum.they are scattered randomly as if they have no form and meaning.its name is kendi içinde bir dünya.I concluded that colours may refer to some emotions and feelings of humanbeings.(red maybe love or passion,black may be revenge etc.).and so the painter may tell us what his feelings while he paints the picture.

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Anonymous said...

Few days ago I visited Istanbul Modern Art Museum. Among various paints there was one which captured my attention most. It was a work of Cihat Burak. In that paint, I think, the colours which talked on behalf of the artist. His choice in colours is strong enough to reflect his mind.

When I first looked at the paint, contrasts captured my attention. Usage of different colours all together is just one aspect to see its feature of being open to comments. Another interesting image in it is a war ship drawn with colourful flowers. At first sight, it gave me an idea that this work is a depressive one. However, when I looked inside I started to see the colorful flowers as a sign of hope and expectation. What I understand from that paint is that there is always hope even in the most dreadful situations. I had a new concept on my mind after I saw that work: ‘Hope is a kind of healer that can transfer the darkness into a daylight.’

I think our way of looking into something is different from each other like our physical beings. I mean, the comments I made above may not come to anyone else’s mind when looking at the same work. One of the reasons of it can be the situations we are in or the moods of us. I think this is actually what we call as ‘discourse’.
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Anonymous said...

I visited Istanbul Modern Art Museum and I saw an unbelievable athmosphere at there because �t was my first visit to a painting exhibition and the paintings were not similar to others that I saw before.After visiting there I understood that not all people use the same way to communicate with others or to give messages,somebody uses different ways such as artists,sculptors.They use their works.So I fully understand that spoken-written language is not the only way of communicating with each other and expressing ourselves or giving any messages.
When I see those pictures at first I did not understand anything from them but after a couple of minutes I tried to giving meaning to them and finding a message of course I didnt understand all of them but I will tell you the paintings which I understood but be sure that everybody that visits there giving diffrent meanings to paintings that is a painting has numerous meaning at the same time.Firstly,I want to start with Turan Erol-Bodrum 2005 (oil on canvas) �n this picture he used such colors that attract the people and these colour were so vivid like blue,turquoise,green and he drew some boats and sailors every thing is clear and vivid at f�rst glance you can like the pa�nt�ng I think it reflects the mood of artist and he was in a good mood in there and also you can relax when you see the drawing �n that drawing you can not see even one thing that you don�t like.But again in a work of Turan Erol 2004-Slip Boat Dock(�i�ek Yeri-2004) you become stressed as soon as you look.Because everything is dark,the sea is nearly brown,ships are so old and there is a hill on which there is no grass and color there is only some bushes which are died and don�t have any green leaves.It is clear that the artist is in a bad mood and don�t like there because people polluted that dock and he feels sad about this problem so he drew his paintings with dark colors.As we see even the same artist can give two different ideas and different messages with his works of art without using verbal language.and I am sure that every of us can understand what he wants to say with his works.I want to tell one more picture, Ne�et G�rol/ Man Earth 1974 (Toprak Adam) �n this picture he draws a village man and when you look at the picture you can see the common features of the pictures with todays� villager. An old torn dark sweeter an old torn shoe and sock but all of these are on the colour of earth brown and dark yellow the man has a hat that was very old and symbol of villager and and he has a stuff in his hand and spreading crops to the earth.behind the villager there lies a huge mountain.Looking this picture with the other symbol I understand that the artist wants to emphasis the struggles of villagers.And of course many other things �n these picture that I can not describe attract the visitors� attention.
All in all,�f we relate all these with DISCOURSE ANALYSIS,there is lots of things to be told.First of all, �n paintings I saw the language BEYOND the sentences and also understood that from one picture from one symbol.all people can understand different things,everbody can see different images about economy,social life even politic.yes that is true from one drawings lots of meaning can be inferred.Still,I try to understand how it can be possible. In one picture there are many different things to be seen.After thinking for these I can say that the drawings that artist made reflect the opinion of both artists and people who look them because when one looks them,sees his own imagination.It is to hard for me to explain this but I think discourse analysis must be such a phonemenon.There is no importance of language used no matter which language used in everywhere of the world ,people from different nations can understand the language of that paintings.It �s not important how you look Somehow you create an image in your mind to consider and comment on.I think here DISCOURSE IS THE PICTURES,WITH THE CODES OF UNIVERSALLY UNDERSTANDABILITY.

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Anonymous said...

ı have visited istanbulmodern art museum and ı have been greatly impressed by their works since a lot of meanings,senses,emotions have been put into paintings.anyway,
ı have been examined 'nomads at their summer camp'- Turgut Zaim (1906 - 1974)the painting is about the life in Anatolia.There are womans with the crock on their hand,other people and children
around.MOreover,a woman with a small child on her arms has been painted and these people's dressing style is exactly like very anatolia style,so this painting reflects their lifestyle and their traditions.For instance,ıf ı didn t have any knowledge of anatolia, ı would have guess what a kind of life they had from this paintings,so we can say that paintings express a lot.No matter what your point view is,you have an opinion or an image in your mind.colours are impressive,shapes are detailed even their facial expressions are depicted,therefore you feel yourself within their life,and ı have felt this.
all in all,the art is a way of getting info. about a culture,a man,etc.the art is a way of expressing your emotions,values,too.

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Anonymous said...

yesterday, i visited Pera Museum. there was an exhibition of Josef Koudelka. when i first entered the exhibition hall a picture took my attention on it. it was made by Koudelka in Czech republic in 1960. he made it in his beginning times of making pictures. the picture was about environment pollution. there was a factory and its 3 chimneys. black fumes was coming out of them to the sky, and sky became dark...
i think he saw the world's future even 50 years ago. because nowadays air and environment pollution is one of the most important problems of the world and humankind. with this picture he may want to give people some clues and want to make them sensitive about future. but i think nobody cared him enough.
also there were a few birds flying but one of them was dead on the ground. it was very impressive,it was dead because of pollution.the land was very dark.there was no person,no home ...it shows us one day the world becomes a place where people cannot live on it.this is DISCOURSE ANALYSIS this is what i understood.
İ suggest all friends to see the exhibition until 14 April.

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Anonymous said...

'Mount Ararat' portreit by Turan Erol: The matter is not to talk about the reputation of mount as the highest in Turkey or blessing with the belief that Noah's Ark was on the zenith of it. No need to look from the angle of 'best' adjectives. A perspective focused on just people alive right now relating it with these people, giving the interactions must be the intent.

ağrı dağın eteğinden
uçan güvercin olsam
türkü olsam dillerde
diyar diyar dolaşsam

No verbal element and you see the poem on the portreit. A person in Ağrı will not seek for numeratically analysed mount and highly intellectual poem, and not a portreit that is abstract.

I can see hot colours in the sky, especially red and dark blue in some parts. In this way, the painter names the sky as the place that 'holy' steps. And the mount, brown like earth; like the houses hear and there.. Earth with its light brown tone remembers us our source and destination, our links with it.

The mount, a part of which is steep; painted with sharp lines and the other part painted with trembling style reflects the tides in 'people' as the heart of all universe; indeed, the move of 'truth' and 'evil' elements...

People draw their inner worlds since the stone ages. Our ancestors had the need to draw their hunting jobs on the walls of caves. And Erol follow the path, meantime reformulating the life styles and values. (IstanbulModern)

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Anonymous said...

I visited İstanbul Modern Art Museum.Firstly, I want to mention about there.It is so great and fascinating that I was affected very much.There are alot of and every kind of pictures such as modernism, republic and anotalian style.One of the most attracting picture is ALAADDİN AKSOY , Gardens of my childhood,2002.When I saw this picture, I could not speak and my eyes attached on it.Many people or children are living in a harmony with the nature. Their face reflects many emotions like that being upset, happy or fear.Besides that, When I look at their, I saw a longing for their childhood, especially older people in that picture.On the other hand, many animals are there so, we can understand the harmony between people and nature.The most attracting thing is that a person has got a baby object on his head.This situation is interesting and charming. The artist succeed conveying his thougts to us clearly not using a language.Briefly , we can understand the artist' language thanks to emotions . EDA AKKAYA
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Anonymous said...

Last week, I visited İstanbul Modern Art Gallery and for the first time I investigated the works of artists with the perpective of discourse and I thought about its’ roles to make the work of arts meaningful to the visitors.I understand that discourse actually depends on our background knowledge, used in every field of our lives.For example; even the way we behave while visiting the museum comes from our background knowledge.

In this perpective i tried to analayse two pictures in details to find the discourses’ role.In other words, I tried to get the nonverbal voice of the artists.

First, I want to mention about the work of Mehmet Güleryüz .When I first looked at this picture I realised lots of mixed and complicated lines and also when I looked attentively,i could see a portrait of a man who is stucked in those depressive lines.To support the mood of unhappiness and unpleasure, dark tones of the colours are used.This man seems to be in the middle of a dark see and he seems to have no possibility to get out of there.This gives an impression of everlasting unease.There is no hope of light , everything and eveyone seems to be opposed to him.Not until I read the striking name of this work, i wasn't able to understand throughly what the artist means.Actually the name was: “Notorious” ( “Dile Düsmüs”).When I thought about it, the pieces of the puzzle started to find their places in my mind.Because, here my discourse and background knowledge about notorious people got activated and helped me to understand the opinon lying behind the picture.By the way my dicsourse and the artists’ met.So I could think in the same way he thought while drawing this picture.By using such complex and depressive lines, he must have tried to express the situation of notorious people in society and the others’ reaction aganist them.I mean he used his own cultural knowledge while drawing this picture.

Second, the work of Abdülmecid called “Goethe in Harem”(Haremde Goethe) drew my attention.In this interesting picture there is a woman lying in a sofa,in a dark room.But the lady is well dressed and it is understood both from the furnitures and from the way the room is designed that there is a big wealth.But then knowing the fact that the room is Harem changes the mood.It is seen that this wealth belongs to Ottoman Empire and this woman is not rich herself, she is just a slave of sultans.The word “harem” replaces the picture in our minds with another one.This is actually how discourse works.
In addition this woman seems to have pride, vanity and jealousy and ambition.The expression of her face reflects this emotion.By looking this, we guess that there must be a rivalry between slave women.Also the darkness of the background of the picture may be used to reflect the bad condition of the government at those times.It is smt to be thought about that despite of this ill conditions why the lady is drawn in such a magnificent and unanxious way . We don’t know but she may be his favourite one:) Again our culture and my social knowledge about those times helped me to understand this contradiction and make this comment.This is what we are generally do in our Linguistics II courses.
Now ,actually I think that, If smt called “discourse” didn’t exist we would never be able to understand artists and their works.But by the help of this, the works of artists are understood by people from all over the world , although most of them are nonverbal.Because discouse is universal.


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Anonymous said...

I visited the modern art museum it was like visiting the artists' souls and minds.They have expressed themselves by drawing picture you can see the history,love,hate,poverty.beauty, etc. in the pict. you feel yourself in the moment of the artist and understand the feeling of artist on that time but some of the pict. are so interesting that each men can describe them differently they make you feel as if you were the artists of them.All of the paintings are excellent but we cant know if the artist was successful on expressing his feelings,ideas because ı think commenting on the paintings is as important as drawing them:)for example Turgut Zaim(Yaylada yörükler)had drawen women who were cooking,looking after children,a girl who was helping her mother and a boy who was sitting without doing anything in that painting some people can say that the artists tried to tell about the women's roles in our culture and how precious the turkish women were while the other groups of people or the feminists say that the artists expressed his anger or criticism of the culture of us.Bedri rahmi eyüpoğlu's painting(han kahvesi)shows that how turkish men enjoy themselves by playing the saz and chatting in the turkish cafe but you can commend that as the turkish were lazy and passed their times in the cafe in other words ı think artists' painting is the the language of art and the comment of a person on that pict. is art of language;)
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Anonymous said...

last week i've visited istanbul modern art museum. and there were many amazing paintings...but one of the most fascinating painting which ı have been effected : cihat burak's triptych called "death of the poet"
he painted this in 1967 and this date tells us that ıt wasn't painted randomly,the picture and the date have lots of message to explain the ideas of the artist. it was divided into 3 pieces, each one has its own secret meaning. ın the left side of the picture we can undertand that the man in a prison and he is a prisoner. and there is a flowerpot in front of the guardrail and in the pot there is one red flower,also we can see the same flowerpot on the right part of the triptych. i think it tries to explain that nothing have changed and nothing would change. on the left part of the triptych the prisoner has a cat in his hands ıt is a white cat, maybe ıt is the sign of a hope of the prisoner(in most of the painting of cihat burak i understand that he loves all of the animals but not more than cats)and also the prisoner is a poet because on the wall of the prison we can see a poem:
"Bugün pazar,
Bugün beni ilk defa güneşe çikardılar.
Ve ben ömrümde ilk defa gökyüzünün bu kadar benden- uzak bu kadar mavi
bu kadar geniş olduğuna şaşarak
kımıldanmadan durdum.
Sonra saygıyla toprağa oturdum,
dayadım sırtımı duvara.
Bu anda ne düşmek dalgalara,
bu anda ne kavga, ne hürriyet, ne karım.
Toprak, güneş ve ben...
Bahtiyarım..."
so he has been a prisoner here for a long time. in the middle of the picture there is a poet lying on the floor but he is bleeding and there is a paper in his hands, somethng written on it and i think these are his last words...there are pigeons next to him,nonetheless they continue to live with their beauty. we can see down parts of some people they are sittng and watching the poet's death but doing nothing except that,i guess thay are politicians...besides there were many flowers lying on the chest of the poet and this means that he has got many beautiful things in his heart and mind but no one let him to say these freely. and lastly on the right side there are people who are protesting,i guess they try to get their rights about their freedom to speech.
i think it is the picture of that years' situation. cihat burak wanted to explain that there must be always freedom to express ideas.
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Anonymous said...

Nowadays, there is an exhibition at Sabancı Museum with the co-operation of Lauvre Museum.
I chose a tile work for my discourse analyze,´The Garden Court.´ There are four women in a lovely garden with some trees and flowers.Two of them are sitting and others are standing.At first glance,I thought that sitting women are seem like nobles and others seem like their maids who are waiting for their command.The work helped me to imagine the 17th century Persian life style.This work also provided me to think two things.One is the harmony of women and nature with their being well in each others´ hands as the garden seems well and women seem happy.The other one is the place of women in society,they are in a garden court,I mean they are interested with womenlike activities.Their clothes reflect women politeness and elegance.Moreover,their clothes reflect their having been improved in clothing and handiwork as they are so chic and good prepared.Their not having jewellery may reflect that they were not much improved in jewells.
I was wondering how can people undrestand the language behind the pictures or any other works but now I can also say something about discourse.
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Anonymous said...

I have visited istanbul Modern Art museum. To tell the truth, those times in museum was very exciting. In fact, walking trough the paintings and discussing the meaning from the discouse aspect with my friends was exciting.

The first painting that attracted our attention was "The 10th of Muharrem (Ashureh)" from Fausto Zonaro. First we just tried to imagine "what the painter's intention was" in our minds silently. A few minutes later we explained our thoughts.

In the painting, it is night. there are men,carring swords. Their faces reflect sorrow. becase their eyes are close and mouths are open. they seem like mourning, crying and murmuring. And each head is in blood. they wear white clothes ,but not clear, they are aslo in blood.
But a man ,in the middle, is different from the others. He has black clothe, glasses and long beard. And he carries a book. By these features, he looks like their leader. And there are two women on the left side,wearing black clothes. They seem like wailing,singing sth sorrowfully.

My friends say “what is this about? A war maybe , but it looks complicated doesn’t it?”

My explanation ; this painting reflects the 10th muharem. On that date, Hz Hüseyin and his followers were murdered. And from then on each year ,even now, the lovers of them remember this incident and feel themselves sorry. They try to feel their feelings at that time. Swords, blood, unhappy faces, clothing reflects this. I can say this thanks to my knowledge of the custom about that date.
To be more clear about the discorse and examlify it; they see their eyes are close and mouths are open but they could not put the meaning that they are wailing. I just explained it according to my knowledge,background. I think this is “DISCOURSE”.

And maybe the painter told more but I just understand the part of it. Who knows…

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Anonymous said...

I have visited istanbul Modern Art museum. To tell the truth, those times in museum were very exciting. In fact, walking trough the paintings and discussing the meaning from the discouse aspect with my friends was exciting.

The first painting that attracted our attention was "The 10th of Muharrem (Ashureh)" from Fausto Zonaro. First we just tried to imagine "what the painter's intention was" in our minds silently. A few minutes later we explained our thoughts.

In the painting, it is night. there are men,carring swords. Their faces reflect sorrow. becase their eyes are close and mouths are open. they seem like mourning, crying and murmuring. And each head is in blood. they wear white clothes ,but not clear, they are aslo in blood.
But a man ,in the middle, is different from the others. He has black clothe, glasses and long beard. And he carries a book. By these features, he looks like their leader. And there are two women on the left side,wearing black clothes. They seem like wailing,singing sth sorrowfully.

My friends say “what is this about? A war maybe , but it looks complicated doesn’t it?”

My explanation ; this painting reflects the 10th muharem. On that date, Hz Hüseyin and his followers were murdered. And from then on each year ,even now, the lovers of them remember this incident and feel themselves sorry. They try to feel their feelings at that time. Swords, blood, unhappy faces, clothing reflects this. I can say this thanks to my knowledge of the custom about that date.
To be more clear about the discorse and examlify it; they see their eyes are close and mouths are open but they could not put the meaning that they are wailing. I just explained it according to my knowledge,background. I think this is “DISCOURSE”.

And maybe the painter told more but I just understood the part of it. Who knows…

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Anonymous said...

I've visited Istanbul Modern Art Museum,where I took a look a different works.the exhibition called:The Silent Resistance was especially my favourite.the Russian painter represent the "pictorialism movement"where the aesthetic plays a big role,the harmony and balance of the picture is also significant.they create dramatic and poetic works with using different soft techniques and light plays.the artist of pictorialism claim that the real purpose of art is to produce the reality and nature again.the works are from the real life that with the dramatic use of the light reflects sadness,happiness and drama.I've chosen the work by Alexender Grinderg "The Sitting Women"(1926)on the picture the focus is on the naked woman who is sitting with bended neck and her face is hidden between her arms.the woman is very naturel, her body doesn't have any exaggerated aspects which removes the look from the actual woman body and its sexuality.the whole has a meaning, the dark background and the woman who looks very hopeless.an alone and naked woman in a dark environment.she expresses sadness and loneliness.the way she has placed her hands is like she need a hand to hold her hand.despite she doesnt wear anythink she is still "closed".when you think deeper it is very fascinating that we can express our feelings through colors and painted body language without using any word or sound.
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I've visited Istanbul Modern Art Museum and I've been really affected even if I dont understand to analyze the language of pictures.the exhibition called "silent resistance"
I've selected one picture which is attract my attention,concerning to Aleksei Mazurin.the work is called "WINTER"(1900).when I first look at the paint I've realized a worry and a beautiful winter view.the paint was like a real.contrasts are wonderful.all of the trees and ground full of snow.there is a woman who is looking far and she is wearing black clothes.it is clear to understand that there is a black clothed person in a winter white.it seems like she is in mourning(lamented)on the contrary winter says as if "beautiful happy days will be come" because winter white is bare peoples soul.but the woman seems like thinking with sadness.Aleksei Mazurin did not take the whole of the people in his paint.there is just a woman and it must be express something to us.maybe it tells "peoples escape,from the people"(about maltreat)
of course we can't understand how Aleksei Mazurin paint this picture with which emotions.but their experiences are appear with contrasts.it is very interesting that artists tell lots of things behind the pictures,paints...etc.even if we dont understand to analyze them.but it is a wonderful talent..
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"This is the true source of the rich language in his works"

Cihat Burak is not a man of letters.Of course except from his being a succesful short story teller.But then why is the term 'language' used while referring his manners and ways and styles of his above-mentioned works he did as an arthitecht,a painter.

In each art production there is a language, maybe a secretcode that carries lots of deep meanings.For example:"Wrestlers" by Cihat Burak.When we investigate this work we see that the figures deformed and looking at the onlooker as if they were posing for wrap theirselves in a bewildered, foolish and ridculuous expression.The flower put into a flowerpot as it should be stands at the right side of the wrestlers; the writing "maaşallah" and the dark coloured background with its fountain pattern upper side of it reminds the classic 'istanbul hatırası' photographs.this work is also an example for Cihat Burak's being an artist going into too many details and using early humour elements.

I looked at the painting without thinking all of these proffessions and occuptions. I just never hd known about in which way the wrestlers ar mde so funny looking but i realized it.because i share the same language with this artist for we rae coing from a mutual culture.

But i don't take the view that each work of art is meaningfull for everyone.İf i don't know one language, i can not speak it or it doesn't help me with understandingthe stimulants.But at the same time each work triggers some sensations of mine.Because we are living in the same world and we have at least a letter in common no matter how differnt our alphabets are..
G.K

Anonymous said...

i visited ıstanbul modern art museum and the pictures were really touched my soul and i was really impressed.first of all,it was amazing that how a painter can express himself efficiently without using any verbal or non-verbal elements in his work.by means of colors,shadows or other features,he can convey the pictures' message to the visitors of the museum if it s a rebelious or entertaining scene.for instance a picture called 4 figures shows 4 different man but when you first look at it u can see only 2 of them.from my point of view,it tries to show how a man houses 2 or so kinds of personality.in conclusion,i think what the painter tries to do is actually successful by the help of DISCOURSE....
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i want to mention about istanbul bienal between the date of 6september-2 december 2007 at istanbul modern.it was the most impressive exhibition in my life 'now,past'.it was an universal wxhibition including the best works of artists from turkey and all over the world.the most impressive work of them was under the name of'arayan bulur,kapiyi calan buyur edilir'.it was from Haluk Akakce.it seemed so simple but in this plainless it could how we welcome someone indise ourselves.there was just a part of curtain and in it some complex embellishment.when i first looked at it meant nothing to me.but after reading the instructions i saw that it was the very reflection of our inner world.when i left the exhinition there was saomething in my mind prooving that'art language is universal,everybody sees something different in art forms and after this course i see that its reason is discourse analysis'
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İstanbul Modern Art Museum is one of the most central and beautiful place in İstanbul. I was marveling when I saw there and visited there. Because, a big and old entrepot is built for art. I went down suspension equipped with a chain steps. Also,the relevant sources were dedicated in library. There is a forbidden for taking photograph. But, you can buy coloured photocopies of works of arts. The visitings are unpaid on Thursdays. I think these services are a big fineness. Eczacibasi Group gives some concrubitions to these sevices. Therefore, thanks to Eczacibasi Group.

The exhibition is formed with three chapters and a video program : “Cihat Burak’s Retrospective”, “ Quiet Resistance - Pictorial of the Russian’s Photograph”, “ Mixed Pictures Exhibition” and “Love and Politics”.

I examined “Cihat Burak’s Retrospective” because of his disparity in the others. He is a wonderful craftsman. He pictures Ottoman’s end period of time and Republic’s first period of time, which contains the most important events.

I examined a triptych work of Cihat Burak. The name of the picture is “ŞAİRİN ÖLÜMÜ” (DEATH OF THE POET ). First time, the picture is incomprehensible like all the art works. Artist draws his cat on his bosom at the picture’s left side. There is a small room. He imitationes the room a prison. There is a small flowerpot in front of the railing window. There is a single red rose in the flowerpot and there are pigeons on the floor.I think red rose and pigeons represent freedom and hopes.

The big poet Nazım Hikmet, who gives his name to picture, outstretches on the floor, at the middle and main part of picture. His head and chest are in full of blood. Old pages are in his hand. The poem, that is called “MEMLEKETİM”, is written on old pages. Flowers are on his chest and pigeons are on the floor. İn my opinion, these symbols show peace, freedom and leftism. He creates sadness on the people with his eyes. There are some people in same clothes. But their heads are not seen in the picture. I think they symbolizes politics and politicians. Because, they are just a spectator to events that occour in front of them.

Cihat Burak draws complexity of free life at right side, on the contrary. Because, there are isolation and desolation at left side. Artist, who is called “Historian of Time”, illustates the days which from fez to modern days at the picture’s right side.

The arts of Picture, Statue and Relief' aim is to give a message to people and next generations. There are many works of art which can not be analysed still. The analysis’ target is to find the “right” through productive ideas and have got universal language in same thought. Big knowledge is necessary to people who analyses. This will make analysis easier. As a result, in my opinion,”Discource Analysis” is an art of patience , knowledge and ability of placing the stones to right place.

Anonymous said...

İstanbul Modern Art Museum is one of the most central and beautiful place in İstanbul. I was marveling when I saw there and visited there. Because, a big and old entrepot is built for art. I went down suspension equipped with a chain steps. Also,the relevant sources were dedicated in library. There is a forbidden for taking photograph. But, you can buy coloured photocopies of works of arts. The visitings are unpaid on Thursdays. I think these services are a big fineness. Eczacibasi Group gives some concrubitions to these sevices. Therefore, thanks to Eczacibasi Group.

The exhibition is formed with three chapters and a video program : “Cihat Burak’s Retrospective”, “ Quiet Resistance - Pictorial of the Russian’s Photograph”, “ Mixed Pictures Exhibition” and “Love and Politics”.

I examined “Cihat Burak’s Retrospective” because of his disparity in the others. He is a wonderful craftsman. He pictures Ottoman’s end period of time and Republic’s first period of time, which contains the most important events.

I examined a triptych work of Cihat Burak. The name of the picture is “ŞAİRİN ÖLÜMÜ” (DEATH OF THE POET ). First time, the picture is incomprehensible like all the art works. Artist draws his cat on his bosom at the picture’s left side. There is a small room which he imitationes a prison. There is a small flowerpot in front of the railing window and there is a single red rose in the flowerpot and there are pigeons on the floor.I think red rose and pigeons represent freedom and hopes.

The big poet Nazım Hikmet, who gives his name to picture, outstretches on the floor, at the middle and main part of picture. His head and chest are in full of blood. Old pages are in his hand. The poem, that is called “MEMLEKETİM”, is written on old pages. Flowers are on his chest and pigeons are on the floor. İn my opinion, these symbols show peace, freedom and leftism. He creates sadness on the people with his eyes. There are some people in same clothes. But their heads are not seen in the picture. I think they symbolizes politics and politicians. Because, they are just a spectator to events that occour in front of them.

Cihat Burak draws complexity of free life at right side, on the contrary. Because, there are isolation and desolation at left side. Artist, who is called “Historian of Time”, illustates the days which from fez to modern days at the picture’s right side.

The arts of Picture, Statue and Relief' aim is to give a message to people and next generations. There are many works of art which can not be analysed still. The analysis’ target is to find the “right” through productive ideas and have got universal language in same thought. Big knowledge is necessary to people who analyses. This will make analysis easier. As a result, in my opinion,”Discource Analysis” is an art of patience , knowledge and ability of placing the stones to right place.

Özge KAVAK
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