A sign of the past: Aliye berger

Abstract

Aliye Berger , who has a privileged place in The Turkish Painting Art , stayed away from the generation clash of her time and various groupings. She was an artist who had an aim to acquire a place in art community. Her privileged place in art , and her life without giving attention to social pressure has result as reflecting her own her life style to her works. She is one of the artists who acts as herself. Her artistic style is just like an action which has a fictional expression upon her own identity. Creation is not producing extraordinary things, creating shapes and strolling around the current time. Art has no gender, nationality and race. What is important is the necessity to do something real by feeling those deeply. People whom we can call genuine artists can easily assimilate polyphony in life and with some sensibility they can spend a whole life to reflect these with some bravery. Just as Aliye Berger, her art is also fed by her life. Her actions become a part of her life and create their own symbols. Thus, her works turn into their genuine feature. In this paper, it is aimed to understand the identity of Aliye Berger through her gravures. As a woman artist who has gone beyond her own age with an analysis through her art, it is aimed to investigate her artistic personality and extraordinary sensitivity. This study is neither a history of art nor a biography of literary agent; it is an approach with the artist’s eye Berger’s drawings. Trying to understand her through the fancy world she created, insight of beauty, a place of fiction, technical restructuring and critiques related to her art and the visual materials and by investigating her works we wanted to create a written portrait of Aliye Berger. Keywords: Aliye Berger, print making, identity, gravure, image.