POWER OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN GUERNICA AND IRAQ FREEDOM MONUMENT
GUERNİCA VE IRAK ÖZGÜRLÜK ANITINDA SANATSAL ANLATIM GÜCÜ

Author : Reyhan YÜKSEL GEMALMAYAN -Bassıl Abdullah Fathi JAJJU
Number of pages : 160-173

Abstract

Picasso's famous Guernica mural, which struck the stamp to 20th century period of his internalize the sense of civil war in the town of Guernica,it's reputation has gone beyond being a wall painting and has become admirable. Each country has memorials built to remind future generations of important events and important people who have lived in relation to the pre-civilization or post-civilization history, and to remind them of historical events. When Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish government for the World Exhibition in Spain in 1937, Spain was dragged into civil war and the Guernica town was attacked by air. Picasso was attacked on this town. This wall painting bearing the name of the town has taken on a different function than the whole of the paintings in the picture and is described as a monumental painting. The artwork has become a symbol of the 20th century with the power of art and ideology. The content emphasized by its color and emotional characteristics - black and white tones - which is one of the important elements of form-content integrity, is still the center of attention of world artists and art critics today and many artistic and narrative values are being studied in the thesis report. The Iraqi artist Cevat Selim participated in the monument design contest held in memory of the July 14th Revolution in Iraq in 1958. Designed by the government and elected to make the "Iraqi Freedom Monument". Selim completed his education in France and was influenced by many Western artists, mainly Picasso. The resemblance to the US Statue of Liberty, the name chosen for Selim's memorial, is another image of this influence. When the "Iraqi Statue of Liberty" was examined, it was seen that Selim was strongly influenced by Guernica wall painting. The artist, who internalized Guernica in the direction of composition and meaning, tried to construct the monument by reading the symbols at the interfaces of the artist while designing the monument. However, beyond the similarity of Picasso's picture to that of the memorial of Selim wanted to be described in this article, how artistic expression power of a work finds its way from the internalization of the subject to the conceptual and imaginary line of thought. The reputation of Selim's monument has not yet reached Guernica. Because artistic narrative power of an artwork is based on the totality of metaphorical expression, in which the artist can assimilate his feelings about the subject he wants to express in his work, to internalize his processes of thinking, into visual concepts in imagery-based contexts. This article will focus on artistic expression in Guernica and artistic expression in the Iraqi Freedom Monument. In the context of context, the form-content dimension of artistic expression power will be narrated in metaphorical meanings which are national and international. Both works will be examined in composition, the relation between them will be defined and the artistic expression difference of similar figures will be examined. Picasso's famous Guernica mural, which struck the stamp to 20th century period of his internalize the sense of civil war in the town of Guernica,it's reputation has gone beyond being a wall painting and has become admirable. Each country has memorials built to remind future generations of important events and important people who have lived in relation to the pre-civilization or post-civilization history, and to remind them of historical events. When Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish government for the World Exhibition in Spain in 1937, Spain was dragged into civil war and the Guernica town was attacked by air. Picasso was attacked on this town. This wall painting bearing the name of the town has taken on a different function than the whole of the paintings in the picture and is described as a monumental painting. The artwork has become a symbol of the 20th century with the power of art and ideology. The content emphasized by its color and emotional characteristics - black and white tones - which is one of the important elements of form-content integrity, is still the center of attention of world artists and art critics today and many artistic and narrative values are being studied in the thesis report. The Iraqi artist Cevat Selim participated in the monument design contest held in memory of the July 14th Revolution in Iraq in 1958. Designed by the government and elected to make the "Iraqi Freedom Monument". Selim completed his education in France and was influenced by many Western artists, mainly Picasso. The resemblance to the US Statue of Liberty, the name chosen for Selim's memorial, is another image of this influence. When the "Iraqi Statue of Liberty" was examined, it was seen that Selim was strongly influenced by Guernica wall painting. The artist, who internalized Guernica in the direction of composition and meaning, tried to construct the monument by reading the symbols at the interfaces of the artist while designing the monument. However, beyond the similarity of Picasso's picture to that of the memorial of Selim wanted to be described in this article, how artistic expression power of a work finds its way from the internalization of the subject to the conceptual and imaginary line of thought. The reputation of Selim's monument has not yet reached Guernica. Because artistic narrative power of an artwork is based on the totality of metaphorical expression, in which the artist can assimilate his feeli

Keywords

Artistic expression, metaphor, form-meaning, unity.

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