Landscape Painting in Turkish Art of Painting and Periodical Reflections

Abstract

The landscape is an indispensable subject of our painting art just as like the nature which is an indispensable part of the life of human being. In spite of the different movements and applications in the development line, the nature has maintained its dominant place in the art and it has taken place in the values that shaped the art. The landscape painting among the paintings of the Turkish painters shows that the natural scenes were given importance subject and so the number of the paintings with this subject was great. Our getting acquaintance with the painting as an eastern community has led us to paint with our senility towards the natural scenes. Our first paintings that did not carry the signatures of our painters because of the sensitivity of the painters’ who dealt with the landscapes with an admiring manner that felt afraid to touch the nice landscapes which are created by god with beauty had social values that they did want to put their names before the community. Compositions, still life and even nude paintings that included different points of view towards the natural appearance as well as including landscapes. The natural views have remained in the paintings as indispensable values. Even the abstract paintings that have emerged as a result of the fast flow of the development are abstract paintings of the nature. In this study, the landscape painting in the Turkish Painting Art and its periods in the development period will be dealt with.