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Orhan Peker

Orhan Peker (1926 - 1978)

He was born in Trabzon in 1926. He studied at the Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu Workshop at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts (now known as Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University). His artistic talent and his achievements in the act of becoming an artist during this education period indicate an important time in his artistic life. Bedri Rahmi's workshop was effective in the formation of the artist's impressive personality. The artist later became one of the founders of the Group of Ten. Peker; He opened exhibitions in Austria, Germany and Spain. He is an artist who saw and grasped the fact that in our contemporary painting art and among the middle generation artists, the search for identity and personality is possible with an effort to find an original painting language that is compatible with life, and who produced works in this direction. For Peker, painting has been the most respected way of expressing himself since the early years of his art. He paints his own thoughts, his own colors, his own immediate environment, his own lights and most importantly, his own stains. The world of objects he sees and perceives and human life have always maintained their validity as the constant subjects of his painting. The source of his paintings, which are based on his local impressions and observations, has always been taken from nature and life. He tried to emphasize the meaning behind the image rather than the image on the canvases. All of these are like a mirror of the artist's life, interests and loves. It has nothing to do with dreams other than reality. The paintings, which are the creations of Orhan Peker, are evidence of a superior talent and a contemporary stance, with their aesthetic values, within the short limits of a period of only thirty-two years of artistic production, called fifty-two years of life. The artist passed away in Istanbul in 1978.