NEDİM GUNSUR - KARABASAN

NEDIM GUNSUR

KARABASAN

Signed, 1960s.

Oil on canvas

32 x 67 cm

Literature:

Türkiye İş Bankası's 16 November - 30 December 2006

“Nedim Günsür Retrospective” organized between

It took place in the exhibition.

(Exhibition catalogue, p.110.)

(Exhibition Catalogue, p. 147.)

NEDIM GUNSUR

He is known for his socially content works, which he describes as “a painter who approaches all objects with love” and which he creates with a figurative approach that also carries naive features. Born in Ayvalık in 1924, Günsür became a student of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu at the Academy of Fine Arts, which he entered in 1942. Günsür, who was among the founders of the Group of 10 during his student years, went to Paris in 1948 with a scholarship he received from the French government. He worked in the studios of Andre Lhote and Fernand Leger. He changed his impressionistic approach to painting, which he had maintained until then, under the influence of Picasso, Leger and Matisse, as well as the African art he had just encountered, and turned to a semi-abstract approach. Günsür, who returned to his country in 1952, taught art in Karadeniz Ereğlisi between 1954 and 1958, and later continued his work independently in Istanbul. Günsür, who created paintings about the lives of miners with a figurative expressionist approach in the 1950s, turned to urban life and problems after the 1960s. He displayed a painting approach that was heavily dramatic in his works. In his works depicting city and coastal views, amusement parks and festivals, he focused on a poetic narrative.