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Nuri İyem (1915 - 2005) Click for Artist Information
"Migrant Woman"
Details Faces: Starting from 1962 the delicacy of portrait paintings which has started with the exhibition “Liman” will be evolving to multiple. Works on woman faces in İyem’s art. The canvasses which are being ruled by oval faces, with a white or a enframing black cover, or sometimes hair with a similar mission, are being illustrated as a different examples of this grouping with the delicacy of Nuri İyem. From Anger to patience, love to hatred, inevitability to desperation, darkness to love but most importantly the eyes which are burning with lights which are leaning from discrete rebellions to shocking screams are dominant in İyem’s expression. The monumentalized faces are being shaked with the emotions that the glance has been reflecting. Sometimes the lips are opening with the painful scream of rebellion, from the faces which are monumentalizing the patience of hundred years. These paintings are the interpretations which are being filtered by his process of abstraction and artistic expression. This subjective abstraction is the base of the structure of composition. While the values which are defining the personalities are becoming to portraits, the shapes and objects which are completely purified by the details, are opening to symbolic investigations. The fabrics and hair by covering the heads are emframing the faces as the balances of stains to make the skin textures visible. All the mimics and drawings which are creating a meaning in the faces are being carefully selected. The lips and noses which were minimized to simple forms are reinforcing the frozen effect of sculptural faces. The eyes were kept to reflect the individualism and personality and being revealed as a spectacular visuality. The eyes which are creating portraits from these sculptural faces and even revealing it’s owner’s whole life.
Kıymet Giray, “Nuri İyem”, İş Bankası Kültür Publications, 1998, Page: 147, 150
Oil on canvas
65 x 60 cm
1996, signed
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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.
