MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK AND VISUAL ARTS

Abstract

The area covered by an object is grasped and perceived by its sense organs. The eye, which is one of these sensory organs, has a very important place. Eye performs the act of seeing. Of course, this act of seeing is not just a simple definition given to stimuli. The act of seeing takes precedence over the act of speaking. Because a child learns to recognize the environment in which he clings to life by looking - before the first few words he will say. A child starts to explore the place whose live in. In short, seeing is before words. Experienced events, memories, history can be told with words. However, there is a time difference between the moment and what is told in words and narration. There is a tool that eliminates this time difference. This tool is art. The word art has a wide range of expressions and explanations. When the literature is scanned, it can be found that different definitions are made for the word art. In this process, when the concept of art is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is the visual arts. Visual arts; It includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, graphics, photography, architecture, decorative arts (marbling, miniature, calligraphy). Visual arts are the cornerstone of human life. Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK, he drew attention to the importance of art with his saying “A nation without art means a cut off from the life veins”. In this study; visual arts, Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK's view of art, his contributions to art and the artists of the period will be explained in detail. In addition, suggestions will be made for other studies in this context