Today involved my first visit to Istanbul Modern, one of the main modern art museums in our city. A variety of interesting works are exhibited in the museum, though few that I would care to hang on my wall. Having read with benefit some of Francis Schaeffer's thoughts on art and worldview, I was looking at some of the paintings and considering what they might reflect in the artist's thoughts. In the description of one of Mübin Orhon's works, it is commented that his art is 'based entirely on a use of color from which all form has been purged.'
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| Untitled, 1968 |
It was interesting to me to notice that the vast majority of these works still had two major, direct uses of form in each work: obviously, the frame, but less obviously the artist's signature. In the above case, the artist even left the work untitled. Yet, while communicating formlessness, artists still apparently thought it important to bind their identities to the works'. Does this communicate anything more than simple commercialism? Likely so, but I will leave the observation here.
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| from the bottom left side |
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| note on Orhon's work |
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| a work by H. Anlı |
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