A symphony from sand to nature: Painter Halime Türkyılmaz "The Persona"

I am Professor Dr. Uğur Batı.

I am a Decision Science Specialist and here I write about art, culture, persuasion, ideas and explosions of thought.

So welcome to the corner of questions that cannot be answered even though they are asked.

Today we will talk about a special painter. Halime Türkyılmaz.

Let's reveal her "persona";

Are these trees? Red? Blue?

Would that color be a tree? It seems so.

What if not? What if we are faced with a new illusion?

What if this is a dream? Does life arise from here?

Is this something spiritual?

Here are the questions... Again the questions that are wanted to be asked...

Can other new meanings be derived from the colors here?

Of course they can be. But it is best that we do not go into that. Everyone should keep what they want in their inner world.

Isn't this the reason why silences are sometimes much more meaningful than those expressed out loud?

I am keeping quiet because I actually have a lot to say. I have no choice but to remain silent, because I do not believe that words can reflect what I feel...

What do you think? Aren't these the moments when the first lines intend to emerge from darkness into daylight or when the brush perhaps begins to touch the canvas with some trepidation?

Hard brushes... Hard touches... Hard colors... But very soft touches. Let's call them Halime Türkyılmaz touches.

What gives rise to silence?

Perhaps the hidden voices in those paintings slowly take you in.

Perhaps this is a time of melancholy. Because nature is also a longing. A deep longing. A longing that makes you sigh...

The city has eaten nature today. What remains in the touches that cannot be shared?

Wherever you stand, you long for another corner of nature. This longing will also gain depth with the unforgettable tales of your history.

How does nature appear to you at such moments? Which shore reminds you of what?

Whose memory do you carry under which tree? The feeling of being exiled from somewhere is painful, of course.

What about time?.. Blue... Blue again... Then red...  Maybe the color we are enchanted with swallows many of our memories.

Time shows green through a curtain of fog. In order for us to see nature better...

I wanted to make an introduction as poetic as Halime Türkyılmaz's paintings, let's say, to do justice to the painting rather than the text, and let's elaborate on the subject.

Painting: Tree in the Sunflower Field/Halime Türkyılmaz

Is Halime Türkyılmaz a "naive painter"?

Should we think of you as a "naive painter" or as "an artist who consciously aims to give a naive air to her paintings"?

This subject is much debated, but let's open a parenthesis to it with your sentences.

The word naive is of French origin and its dictionary meaning is pure, clean, unadulterated and childlike.

However, the definition of "naive painter" is misunderstood in our country.

Based on this, I would like to list a few items in order to clarify naive painting.

Naive painters have not received art training. These painters consider painting as a second job.

Therefore, they have a main job that they earn their living from. They mostly paint on Saturdays and Sundays. For this reason, they are also known as "Saturday-Sunday painters".

They interpret nature not as they see it, but as they think it. Since they have a childish style, there is not much perspective and there is a phenomenon called "height hierarchy" in painting - the important one is bigger.

Painting: Sunflowers/Halime Türkyılmaz

Of course, these items I have listed are not definitive rules. However, they are common aspects taken from naive painters who have existed so far.

For example, Naive is not a school. There is no school called "Naifism". There are "Naifist" painters.

By the way, I think it would be useful to add this: If a painting is done with a meticulous figure technique, especially if the elements of the painting are small, it is immediately thought that it is a naive painter.

After all this, the following question comes to mind: Well, aren't you naive?

I think it is understood from the items I just listed that I am not a naive painter.

However, if there is a lot of interest, I have Naivety, that is, a pure and clean interpretation.

I also believe that all artists have such feelings and interpretations, and in fact, I believe that they should.

Painting: Çay Tarlası/Halime Türkyılmaz

Halime Türkyılmaz "The Persona"

Persona is of Latin origin and means "character".

The concept of persona used in psychology means mask.

In addition, the concept of persona used in literature means fictional character.

Türkyılmaz's perspective is based on the ability of stories to produce participation and insight.

By understanding the characters and stories, it is possible to create a vivid and realistic description of imaginary people.

For this reason, we aim to present a persona about the painter Halime Türkyılmaz, we will do this with items.

Although it is not easy to classify a painter, an artist, and therefore Halime Türkyılmaz, and reveal the persona of her painting, and although it is difficult in its entirety, I will make this attempt.

Painting: Tree of Life Series/Halime Türkyılmaz

I will present these "persona" features to you as a total of 15 items:

Halime Türkyılmaz