http://SupremeMasterTV.com -- Beautiful Impressions of Turkish Painter Emine Güler (In Turkish). Episode: 1658, Air Date: 30 March 2011. Script 1
Today's Enlightening Entertainment will be presented in Turkish, with subtitles in Arabic, Aulacese (Vietnamese), Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Thai.
Welcome, art-loving viewers to today's episode of Enlightening Entertainment. Today, we are travelling to a land of an ancient civilization, Türkiye (Turkey), to meet a genuinely gifted painter. Ms. Emine Güler has been inspired since childhood by the colors and images of central Anatolia, a place abundantly blessed by a rich cultural and natural heritage.
My works started perhaps before writing, before learning to read and write. Actually I have been drawing as early as I could remember. Naturally, the interactions are back in my earliest childhood. During my childhood, I was wondering about the ancient time, I was trying to find out about the lives in the ancient ruins by imagining; this I think was pure curiosity, and this curiosity gave rise to more mythological thoughts. I started to go back to the very beginning of the evolution of humankind. Naturally, they say there is no limit to the imagination.
Ms. Emine Güler was born in Konya, in the Central Anatolian region of Turkey. Konya was the hometown of the great Sufi poet and theologian, Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi. In Konya, vast wheat fields glow in the sun with amber light, as an endless horizon reveals the land's beautiful brown shades.
I simply reflected earth, the soil in my first paintings. I was using mineral oxide colors and these paintings were inspired from the earth. I even gave the light using transparency, I mean with the browns or blues I use. Making use of the whiteness of the canvas, I just give the whiteness of light.
Naturally, there are reflections of traditions in the paintings, like the ones featuring horse figures. They are much connected with Anatolia. In Anatolia, when the father agrees to a son-in-law, the daughter marries this man, the girl goes to her new home. She both cries and goes. The name of this painting is also "I both cry and I go." And traditionally brides traveled to their new homes on horseback. In other words, the feelings in my pictures are rooted in Anatolia.
Since there are certain abstractions in the painting, the figures are not very clear. But I made them like that on purpose. The artist must leave a little bit of imagination to the beholder as well, the beholder should be allowed to think over the painting and find the depth; actually the moment he finds it, he has established a bond with the painting. I named my concept in my paintings "the hidden impressions," meaning there is more to find in the painting, but hidden.
Emine Güler is a prolific artist who has held at least 20 exhibitions so far, with the latest at the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. The museum, which once used to be a church and a mosque, is a timeless shrine of history, spirituality and aesthetics.
I don't accept that there is a single living being who doesn't have faith. And everyone would absolutely have one belief even deep inside. More accurately, the world is such a wonderful place and there are so many wonderful creations, that, it should come from some source and such beauties have necessarily been created in a way or another by the power of creation.
Ms. Güler has developed a unique painting technique and an elegantly detailed yet mysteriously enchanting style.
In my paintings, as I call them the "hidden impressions," the past is certainly carried to our day, with experiences lived in the past lives. That is the concealed purpose, because according to the laws of the world, nothing existing vanishes and nothing can be created from the nonexistent. So, in one way or another we continue to carry the traces of the past. The soil which has hosted people since many centuries continues to carry the traces of living beings ever present on it.
For Ms. Güler, painting itself is a meditative experience.
When I am deeply concentrated in painting, my contact with my surrounding really stops. I am detached from the world where I am working. I go back to my thoughts as a child. Just like describing the world to someone who can not see and you describe him the external world, his surroundings, this and that.
In this painting, just before the exhibition in Hagia Sophia, on the days when I started to get ready for this exhibition, I had a dream and I was awakened by the strength of the dream. But it was an awakening in my dream and in fact I was still asleep, my mind was so busy with the traces of past life experiences. I reflected many types of creatures, experiences on the canvas without being aware of my action. I solved the mystery of the birds by myself at a later time, wh
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