64 - Nuri İyem - "Anatolian Woman"

Nuri İyem - "Anatolian Woman"

NURI IYEM: INDEPENDANT, REALIST, A PAINTING INDIGENOUS TO TURKEY

Nuri Iyem's art, is more then interconnections to form a harmonious whole but rather an area where conflicts are being lived out. In Nuri Iyem's art life there are periodic discontinuities and when one searches for continuity behind the contradictions, the common grounds that will establish continuity will appear as “realistic”.  Nevertheless realism is a concept that is binding in Nuri Iyem's art, commenting on contrasts and differencies can remain inadequent.  Then again describing the paintings as “realist” can cause a few objections. In response to this,  when “modernism” is chosen as a connective concept,  it is easier to find a holistic approach in Nuri Iyem’s works. Before saying more, when “Modernism” and “Westernization”  stood side by side they surrounded the Turkish social life for the last century and became problematic during the Republic period. Therefore it is no wonder understanding Nuri Iyem who is a witness to “modernism” a concept that has become integrated with society. Modernism in Nuri Iyem’s art, gives you the opportunity to think of many different specialties together; the “modernistic” effects in his paintings, his comments against the “D Group”, his competence towards, illumination, to realism shows in his paintings of western style.

Soner Özdemir, “Dünden Yarına Nuri İyem 1”, Evin Sanat Galerisi, 2002, Sayfa: 43

Oil on canvas

50 x 45 cm

50s, signed

This work is on page 141 of the second volume of the 2-volume book “Nuri İyem from Yesterday to Tomorrow”, published by Evin Art Gallery in 2002 as a Catalogue Raisonneé.

Estimate: 400.000 TL - 600.000 TL

Starting Bid: 300.000 TL

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