Hamit Görele (1900 - 1980) Click for Artist Information

Hamit Görele

HAMİT GÖRELE (1900 - 1980)

He was born in Giresun in 1900. He completed his primary and secondary education in Gümüşhane and his high school education in Istanbul. He entered the Engineering School in 1922. After studying engineering for two years, he entered the Sanayi-i Nefise School in 1924 and became a student of Hikmet Onat and İbrahim Çallı. After graduation, she worked as an art teacher at Arnavutköy Girls' High School and Galatasaray High School. During these years, Hamit Görele turned to a post-impressionist approach and painted the pointiest paintings. After graduating in 1928, he went to Paris with a state scholarship and studied first at the Lhote workshop and then at the Leger workshop. After returning home, he worked as an art teacher in different places. In 1932, he participated in the exhibitions of the Independent Painters and Sculptors Union. He assumes the presidency of the Union in 1934. He taught at Konya Teacher Training School in 1934, at Cibali and Beykoz Secondary Schools in 1937, and was appointed to Ankara Gazi High School. He returned to Beyoğlu Boys' Secondary School in 1939. Apart from Istanbul, he exhibited his works in Paris and Bucharest. At first impressionist, in later years; He produces constructivist works under the influence of Lhote.

He was closely interested in the view that developed after the Çallı generation in Turkey and aimed to change the forms of nature at the interpretive level. In his paintings, which made this view dominant in landscape and portrait genres, he used color as a tool to activate volume and depth forms. He joins Turkish painting as an artist who can sense the essence of nature and objects as plastic stains, who can establish transitional connections between formal values with fluent and striking stain expressions, who keeps the visual effect of color hidden in the essence and enriches it with different harmonies. Hamit Görele creates his paintings with seas as blue as hopes, tree trunks as strong as permanence, women's walks as flighty as the wind, and balls of clouds as independent as freedom. The two basic values that explain Hamit Görele's art are sensitivity to color and stain. Hamit Görele is a free artist who builds his individual style on these values. He is one of the rare painters with a free spirit who can see nature as color and assimilate objects as stains. Seas, especially the dynamism of wavy seas, women, especially women with their fidgety walks under the pink stains formed in the shadows of their umbrellas, trees rustling with the whistle of the wind on their leaves reaching towards the sky in luminous green clusters, free clouds forming white, pink and yellow tangles that disperse into the blues that open to endless freedoms. Pink hills and purple mountains are values that reflect the artist's landscape sensitivity. He has been one of the pioneers in bringing new trends and understandings to the scene in Turkey over time, and in encouraging young generations to turn to new pursuits. He died in Istanbul in 1980.