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Nuri İyem (1915 - 2005) Click for Artist Information
"Anatolian Woman"
Women Working in the Fields in Nuri İyem's Paintings: Those who go to the fields or to work will appear as series produced among İyem’s paintings. In the twilight of the morning, convoys of children and animals can be observed on narrow roads, among the slices of nature. Determined steps trample the land without hesitation or fatigue. The end of the walk reaches the “Women Working in the Fields” series; to the women hoeing the ground and collecting the crops under the heat... In the threshing floor paintings arranged like a ballet scene, Iyem’s peasant women carry their wheat bales on their heads with their arms rising upright on their bodies.
Kıymet Giray, “Nuri İyem”, Türkiye İş Bankası, 1998, Sayfa: 232
Oil on canvas
50 x 45 cm
1989, signed
This work is on page 141 of the second volume of the Catalog Raisonneé “Nuri İyem from Yesterday to Tomorrow”, which was published by the Evin Art Gallery in 2002.
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Nuri İyem
NURİ İYEM (1915-2005)
He was born in Istanbul in 1915. He worked in the workshops of Nazmi Ziya, İbrahim Çallı and Hikmet Onat at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts (now known as Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University). He took lessons from Leopold Levy for a while. During these years, he took part in the formation of the "New Group", which would bring new suggestions to figurative tendencies and content problematic in Turkish Painting. Nuri İyem's art was shaped under abstract and modern figurative periods.
He abandoned the concept of abstract painting, which he focused on after 1950, in the 1960s, and followed a period in which his paintings included people migrating from villages to cities, scenes from slum life, and portraits of young women. Concrete content and pictorial structure (architecture), solid construction in the sense of nature, are the main elements that characterize İyem's painting. The reaction, mystery and questioning of the Anatolian steppe can be seen in those eyes, which come to the fore in Nuri İyem's portraits of rural women, which are considered his symbols. Although he produced works in all types of painting, portraits, especially female portraits, have a significant importance in Nuri İyem's art. Among these, her portraits of Anatolian women and her landscapes with figures are the ones that are most engraved in the viewer's memory.
Nuri İyem thoroughly evaluated and realized his Anatolian women series, especially in single and triple compositions, within all pictorial fiction and expression possibilities. The texture of the Anatolian soil is meticulously crafted and strongly expressed in every square centimeter of the paintings. The portraits, each of which brings to mind an icon with its purity, go beyond the stylistic limits of the icon tradition by embarking on a long journey in the endless universe of expression of the human face. He passed away in Istanbul in 2005.
