Questions

When and how linear perspective became a way of seeing? and why it is accepted as an unchangeable rule?

How and why the way of seeing and so the visual language has changed through time, especially in Turkey since Tanzimat Reform Era up until now?

notes

What is 'space'? what is subjectivity?

find some philosophical thoughts of Kant, Deleuze.. on time and space. and also perception.

some notes about creative practice

       Creative expression (or creative practice) provides a visible/ tangible/ audible... space for psychological analysis, i think. If we accept that creation relies on a problem or let us say a subject that the mind does not accept and get over it without transforming or basically expressing it, then the creation is something like an autonomous gesture, a reaction of the mind. So after i take a photograph or make a video, when i look at it, i realize/ see something beyond my conscious intention. so the idea of finding clues about how i perceive and how i feel about a subject(?)  through a finished worked is the main reason of creative expression, i suppose..  (to be continued)

notes

• what is subjective space?

• why to express subjectivity with a transformation of space?

       (a physical space ----> turns into a psychological space, an expression of a mental state beyond what is seen to eye)

 
• what are the differences of photography and painting in terms of creating space?

      photography has an already-existed perspectival view because of its lens based mechanism, unlike painting. there is something to break, to shift its limits.


 

Murat Germen_ Muta-Morphosis

                                                             Woodcutter in the Forest                      Destruction of
                  Subjectivity------------------ >  Muta-morphosis <------------------------Linear Perspectiv                                                 Diptychs                                            perspective                                                                       
                                                                                                                                  

  The Representation of Subjective Space in Turkey After Tanzimat Reform Era up to Today

  Subjectivity and the Destruction of Linear Perspective



 After Tanzimat Reform Era, the influence of western art and linear perspectival representation forms were increased in paintings due to the emerge of the French-oriented education of the artists.
A distinctive representation form of space was developed with the combination of linear perspective and the effects of the former perspective view of miniature. To make references i will chronologically start with  a painting of Şeker Ahmet Paşa; Woodcutter in The Forest and end up with Murat Germen's Muta-morphosis and Ahmet Elhan's Diptychs to search out why a this kind of destruction of linear perspective is used to express subjectivity.

Diagram for creative expression

caretaker

http://brainwashed.com/vvm/releases/the_caretaker_an_empty_bliss_beyond_this_world.html

Referances and Inspirations

To Read:


Anne Friedberg- Window Shopping

Douwe Draaisma- Metaphors of Memory- Ahistory about the mind

Christian Metz- The Imaginary Signifier- Psychoanalysis and Cinema





Inspirational novels, writings



Proust- In search of  Lost Time

Hermann Hesse- On Soul

Schopenhauer- The World as Will and Representation

Sebald- Rings of Saturn    ( caretaker- an empty bliss beyond the world )



Major movements related to work, historical background, inspirational works/ artists;


Visual similarities with;
Impressionism
Romanticism/ Naturalism
( maybe cliche but there is something has to relate with them)

Notes