@article{2017,title={MODERN TURKISH SCULPTURE},abstractNode={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 and advancement of the Turkish sculpture art. The world famous sculpture artist Rudolf Belling was assigned as the head of the sculpture education at that time in the Academy of Fine Arts, and the activities of this artist in the Academy constituted an important stage for the Turkish sculpture. While the sculpture education program applied by Belling did not include modern art movement practices, it was not carried away with academism; its open attitude towards the developments of the era cracked the door open towards a new period in the Turkish sculpture art. This program set an example for the subsequent programs with its applications and trained many students. Those students formed the second generation of sculptors that included Hüseyin Anka Özkan, Hakkı Atamulu, Yavuz Görey, İlhan Koman, Zerrin Bölükbaşı, Hüseyin Gezer, Turgut Pura and Şadi Çalık. In the post-republican era, the first modern Turkish sculptors and the artists that laid the foundations of the Turkish sculpture art included Ali Hadi Bara, Zühtü Müridoğlu, Şadi Çalık, İlhan Koman and Kuzgun Acar. The second generation of modern artists of the Republican Era included figures such as Ali Teoman Germaner, Saim Bugay, Tamer Başoğlu, Mehmet Aksoy, Seyhun Topuz, Meriç Hızal, Remzi Savaş, Ferit Özşen, Koray Ariş, Osman Dinç, Azade Köker and Rahmi Aksungur.},author={Mustafa BULAT},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}