Nuri İyem, 1915-2005, Turkish
UNTITLED, c. 1970s
Oil on canvas,
80 by 120 cm.; 31½ by 47¼ in.
Private collection
Nuri İyem, (1915 - d. 18 June 2005 ) was a
leading figure in the Turkish painting and social-realistic art movement.
Nuri İyem
was born in Istanbul in 1915. During his childhood he used to paint walls with
charcoal. Because of his father's job as a health official, İyem spent his
childhood in various cities of Anatolia. After finishing primary school in
Mardin, he returned back to Istanbul to attend secondary school and he studied
at Vefa and Pertevniyal Highschools.
His
passion to be a painter was forcing his dreams through the coasts of Fındıklı
where the Fine Arts Academy stood. . Those dreams would be concluded with his
enrollment at the Academy in spite of his parents' desire to see their child as
a doctor.
Nuri İyem was one of the most important living masters of
Turkish painting. He has produced, exhibited, written and discussed art without
a break, in spite of all the difficulties to exist as an artist during the
social and cultural course of the Republic period. Nuri has crowned his life
with many precious art works and his own story is not just an autobiographical
representation of an artist, but also an expression of real struggle and
honour. More
on Nuri İyem
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