MAHMUT CUDA - RUBBER POT

MAHMUT CUDA 1904-1987

RUBBER POT

Signed

Oil painting on plywood

27 x 35 cm

Literature:

T.I.B. Publications Kıymet Giray

“Mahmut Cuda” Istanbul 2002 p.62

 

 

MAHMUT CUDA 1904-1987

In 1918, he entered the preparatory department of Sanayi-i Nefise and completed his education

He continued his studies at the İbrahim Çallı Workshop. Starting from 1919

He participated in Galatasaray exhibitions. He went to Munich in 1923 and there

Ali Avni Çelebi and Zeki Kocamemi to Hans Hofmann Workshop

He continued. In 1924, he passed the state exam and went to Paris to study with Julian

Four years of study at Lucien Simon's Workshop at the Academy

saw.

Mahmut Cuda returned to Istanbul and is at the Fine Arts Academy

He started his career as an assistant teacher, but he did not attend the academy

He resigned from this position after a while because he could not get along with his environment.

Cûda joined the Independent Painters and Sculptors Union in 1942.

He also helped establish the Turkish Painters and Sculptors Society.

He contributed to the country tours, first to Trabzon, in 1943

In 1950, he went to Bitlis. The artist founded the Turkish Painters Association.

He founded and organized the association's exhibitions outside Istanbul.

The artist, who was also interested in the world of art, wrote articles on art and

He also published the Fine Arts magazine in 1952.

Mahmut Cûda, who chose a unique path in his art, is a cubist and

Constructivist art movements also influenced by the classical art tradition

He interpreted them in his works by blending them. The still lifes he created

Every object contains the feeling of a plastic mass in space.

as well as its clear and bright image, it goes beyond this mass emotion

It takes the viewer beyond nature to a place where there is “more nature”

draws you into the mystery of the world.