Women Paintings Stories

31 January 2006 - 09 April 2006

Art history, one of the liveliest and most exciting branches of knowledge of our times, emphasizes the need to continually re-examine, re-evaluate and re-interpret its primary ingredient - art works of the past - from fresh perspectives in the light of current information, thought and theory about these works whose very nature keeps them fixed firmly in the past.

Women, Paintings, Stories / Transformation of the image of 'women' in Turkish painting in the modernization era is the product of just such an inclination and re-interpretation. In this exhibition of more than fifty works chosen from a variety of public institutions and private collection spanning the era from the Meşrutiyet / Second Constitution through the Republic, we embark on a voyage through the years during which the Turkish art of painting underwent a movement towards contemporaneity, within the framework of an exceptional and extremely meaningful theme, a reinterpretation of transformation of the image of 'women'.