GUSTAVE COURBET’NİN “KARŞILAŞMA-GÜNAYDIN BAY COURBET” ADLI ESERİNDEKİ GÖSTERGELERLE DOĞU KÜLTÜRÜNDEKİ EL ÖPME OLGULARINDAKİ GÖSTERGELERİN KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI
COMPARISON OF THE INDICATORS IN GUSTAVE COURBET’S “GREETINGS-GOOD MORNING MR. COURBET” WITH THE INDICATORS IN THE HAND KISSING PHENOMENA IN THE EASTERN CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: It is observed that artistic creations have started before the ages of history, whilst refreshing themselves throughout the ages and eras via cultural and societal innovations and not compromising from their core principles at the same. Art, which embraces change and alteration, has made its prevailing presence known through a society’s lifestyle, geography, time and faith at all times. Shaping of art through these concepts has laid the groundwork for acquiring an identity for art which could be used as a common language between different cultures. It is possible that the act greeting, a cultural action, can happen with different rituals in many countries and cultures. The meanings of Greeting and hand-kissing rituals in different cultures has . The focus of this paper is on the meaning of the rituals of greetings and hand-kissing and how they are touted in different cultures in a semiotic aspect. A comparison is showcased between greetings in the French artist, who was raised in a western culture, Gustave Courbet’s “Greeting-Good Moring Mr. Courbet” and the hand-kissing the eastern culture, which is a showcase of respect and love. In this work, the concepts of Kissing, Indicators, Semiotics and Culture’s historical process is emphasized through the greetings ritual in Gustave Courbet’s “Meeting” and the culture of Hand Kissing in Eastern Culture. Certain images are added to emphasize and support this paper. This paper lines up with similar works that has come before it in terms of content, at the same time, it shall be a guide to studies that are going to come after it.

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