FROM THOUGHT TO FORM, IN PAINTING, LINEAR ABSTRACTION JOSEPH BEUYS, THE CASE OF JEAN DUBUFFET

Abstract

A painting is the transfer of the artist's imagination, which has gone through many stages, onto an object with an aesthetic and technical language. In this sense, painting, poetry, literature, etc. Productions belonging to art disciplines such as art are communication tools that carry the thoughts of the artist. Artist's works are also thought, synthesized, planned, interpreted and applied technically in the originality of the creative individual. The painters' search for description has continued actively in every period of the artistic history of humanity. Line, from cave art to the present, is the most powerful and important pictorial depiction tool. Line in painting; It is the most decisive of the means of expression of the artist's image. In major fine arts disciplines such as printmaking, drawing, painting and sculpture, line is used with very different techniques. Line can convey the idea in the mind of the artist in ways of expression, and the aesthetic, by abstracting it with a special language. The line conveys the emotional effect desired by the artist, who conveys the desired form to a special language, to the viewer aesthetically. With line, we can sense and express our thought as a form. It is used as the most important tool in all fields such as image creation, design, planning and engineering. Line, which is the most important tool of painting, has preserved its place in fine arts until today and continues to function in visual works designed in digital environments. Within the scope of this study, two artists who actively use the line, which is a pictorial representation element, and create an expression through drawing without the need for color and volume; Selected works from the works of Joseph Beuys and Jean Dubuffet were examined and analyzed.