EAGLE SYMBOL IN TURKISH ICONOGRAPHY AND IT'S REFLECTION TO THE CONTEMPORARY TURKISH PAINTING Cover Image

TÜRK İKONOGRAFİSİNDE KARTAL MOTİFİ VE ÇAĞDAŞ TÜRK RESMİNE YANSIMALARI
EAGLE SYMBOL IN TURKISH ICONOGRAPHY AND IT'S REFLECTION TO THE CONTEMPORARY TURKISH PAINTING

Author(s): İbrahim Çoban
Subject(s): Anthropology, Semiotics / Semiology, Visual Arts, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: Contemporary Turkish Painting; symbolism; eagle symbol; Shamanism;

Summary/Abstract: It's been thought that eagle has an important place as a cultural value, a symbol (nickname, soul, symbol) in Anatolia and established in other regions of the world in the religious and social life of many civilization. This symbol has been accepted as the bird which brings news from the future also this symbol represent domination, power, authority, goodness, freedom, bravery, protective spirit, nobility, sun, fate, and scholarship. The eagle symbol which has been subsisted throughout centuries, has been transformed into stylized visuals. This visuals which have been symbolized in areas where they been also used as one or two headed eagle in patterns. It has been studied that eagle symbols’ strong presence in the Turkish culture dealt with in terms of the sustainability of Turkish art. It has been examined that eagle symbol's handled with unique plastic language interpretation in the process of since 1923 to the present with tradition and rich history.

  • Issue Year: 4/2015
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 57-80
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Turkish