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Leyla Gamsız (1921 - 2010) Click for Artist Information
"Nudes"
Leyla Gamsız and Her Sensitive Figures: All these paintings, which are dated 1997, 1998, are of course Leyla Gamsız's, but perhaps you will be surprised, but our master artist is experiencing a change... If you ask what this change is, if you wonder why it is necessary, I must immediately state that it is due to the subconscious assimilation of an aged mastery. This formation has now brought her to the limit of turning towards the inner world and abstracting from external influences. From now on, neither subject matter, nor color, nor expression, only and only painting, pure painting is the main thing... Shapes, forms are her again, nudes in general, but this time double and triple compositions are in the majority; however, this multiplicity is not a problem at all, because simplicity is essential... We see this phenomenon mostly in her colors. Again, her old simple, sincere colors are often on the order, but in a way it is as if black and white is dominant. It is such a simple painting in terms of its colors, sometimes her nudes are beautified with expressions that can be created in a few stains...
Abdülkadir Günyaz, "Leyla Gamsız", Antik Art Gallery Publication, 2001, pages 274, 278
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 cm
1997, signed
This work is on page 272 of the book "Leyla Gamsız" published by Antik Art Gallery in 2001.
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Leyla Gamsız
Leyla Gamsız (1921 - 2010)
Leyla Gamsız was born in Istanbul in 1921. She was a student of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu at the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. She worked in the workshops of Andre Lhote and Fernand Léger in Paris in 1952.
Leyla Gamsız, one of the founders of the Group of Ten, established in 1947, blends Anatolian and Western art in her works. The artist's unique language has enabled him to become one of the innovative painters of Turkish painting. The artist also defines the form; developed a subtle and determined style by distorting and changing to certain extent and focusing on color.
The works of Leyla Gamsız, one of the pioneering female artists in the synthesis of abstract and traditional art of the 1950s, are in the collections of the Painting and Sculpture Museum in Istanbul and the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. The artist passed away in Istanbul in 2010.
“Painting is as important to me as life... If there is no painting, there is no life for me... If I have done a good job that day, my joy is restored. I become alive. The world seems bright to me. I find the world worth living in. If I don't work the way I want, I see the world as a dungeon. I am devastated about how I will survive in this world. I exist as long as I paint, and when I can paint, I find the world worth living. For this reason, my life and my paintings present an integrity. "I attach importance to measured deformation and a simplified contemporary understanding of form, both in my figure arrangements, landscapes and still lifes." Leyla Gamsız
