NİCHOLAS KALMAKOFF’UN ESERLERİNDE DOĞU MİSTİSİZMİ, EZOTERİZMİ VE MEHMET SİYAH KALEM ETKİLERİ
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2020
Yazarlar: Alper DEMİREL, Meliha YILMAZ
Akademik Sanat Dergisi, Uluslararası, 2020, cilt 5, ss 69-84
Özet
Usually it has seen Western artists who simply describe eastern culture and life or according to their imagines within unrealistic patterns, even though they had never gone there.However, Kalmakoff did not believe in the Eastern untruthful stories, which was created by the West.Kalmakoff approached eastern mythologies, fantastic imagines and their cults in realistic manner, so it makes him a fabulous artist.Naturally, Nicholas' aspect to eastern is considered interesting.His artworks and eastern effect is observed by digital technology support and artwork-analysis methods.Reviews and analysis are limited to nine paintings of the artist between 1910 and 1930.In this study, Kalmakoff's works, which are thought to reflect the cults of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Asia with a style similar to miniature, were analyzed.The fantastic images of the East are clearly seen in Kalmakoff's paintings.In most of his works about the symbols, gods and demons from the eastern cults.In this study, the influences of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Chinese mythology, belief and art can be seen in Kalmakoff artworks.His works include many mysteries of the East.So much so that it is possible to find traces of Mehmet Siyah Kalem, who still preserves the mysterious identity today in both linear and anatomical movements in Kalmakoff's figures, and reflects the Turkish traditions before and after Central Asia Islam in his paintings.As a result of this research, it can be said that Nicholas Kalmakoff was influenced by the cultures belonging to different geographies of the East and used the eastern art style, color symbolism or Mehmet Siyah Kalem's line language and animism in his Works.