ANALYSIS OF "COVERED CIVILIZATION" AND “DOORMAN'S HOME” BY GÜLSÜN KARAMUSTAFA ACCORDING TO ICONOGRAPHY AND ICONOLOGY METHOD

Abstract

In the study; the works of Gülsün Karamustafa, "Covered Civilization" and “Doorman's Home” are analyzed by using the threestage “Iconographic and Iconological Art Criticism” method developed by Erwin Panofsky. Gülsün Karamustafa is an important figure for her contribution to the development of contemporary art movements that has become a new artistic language in Turkey since the 1980s. She is known for her extensive, comprehensive and intense work reflecting the political and cultural situation of the 80s. The artist carried the phenomenon of migration, experience in this migration process and consequences of migration which she had to experience throughout her life, in the context of belonging, identity and universality to her works. Especially in the early eighties, it is seen that the concept of arabesque, created by the deep-scale changes that accompany the great migration movement from rural to urban areas and the cultural transition experiences created by the immigrants' efforts to integrate into urban life, is found in her works. The process of analysis of the works consists of subtitles of natural meaning (factual, expressive meaning), consensus meaning (secondary meaning) and internal meaning (content). In both of these works, the artist deals with the traumatic experiences caused by the human movements moving from the village to the city and the new and hybrid culture which the rural people have created while trying to integrate their culture with the city culture. In this context, an art-field and art-time research on the artist and the subject she worked on, the painting was analyzed in a straight semantic perspective and semantic analysis.