THE BİRTH OF MODERN TURKİSH SCULPTURE ART
MODERN TÜRK HEYKEL SANATININ DOĞUŞU

Author : Mustafa BULAT -- Serap BULAT - Önder YAĞMUR - Barış AYDIN
Number of pages : 363-374

Abstract

Mekteb-i Sanayi-i Nefise-i Şahane (Academy of Fine Arts), which was the first school of fine arts of the country and which delivered sculpture education in a Western sense, was set up in 1883 by taking Ecole Nationale des Beaux – Arts in Paris as a model, and the school started its art education with a neo-classical understanding of education (Germaner,A.T.199:60-65). After the Turkish Republic was founded in 1923, the innovations and the modernization, development and reform movements were launched in every field in this period, and they lead to radical expansions in the field of art as well. The talented students were sent abroad by the state, and this paved the way for those students to become pioneers in improving the fields of fine arts, and the empowerment of education process in the field of sculpture started in this period as well. When the artists that were sent abroad came back to the country after completing their education, they played a significant role in the development

Keywords

Sculpture Art, Republican Period Art, Modern Sculpture

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