Dilara Gürler Sahin

"Structurally, the work of art, which shows the order of unity in the multitude, brings the unseen in the real world into existence by adding character to the coincidental on the level of internal consistency and logic.”

For an artist, the creative process does not involve a predetermined, determined moment, week or day. The artist is not disconnected from art in his daily life anyway. While fulfilling the requirements of daily life; sometimes subconsciously, sometimes consciously, it is intertwined with its production. In addition to creating his work with the experiences of the artist from his daily life; constantly makes trial and error in the way of mastering. This work activity can take the form of drafts, sketches, note-taking, or just reflection. In this context, there is no sudden inspiration for any artist; but there are environmental influences and experiences. While the artist masters by developing his skills with the layers created by these accumulations; He also knows that not every production he makes is art. The drafts of the artist sometimes form an infrastructure on the work to be created in terms of practice and sometimes research. In the artist's working and experimental stage, form and content constantly clash until they are optimal on the surface or in the mind. This struggle is a rush to externalize the artist's message with the most correct method. When form and content match and complement each other, a work of art emerges. Sometimes, the artist may not proceed from the path he originally set out during the creation phase, or it may be seen that involuntary effects (such as the character or the hero of the novel) appear on the surface after the work is completed. This situation sometimes arises from the surface and sometimes from the inadequacy of the means of expression. Kagan expresses the situation in his book “Lessons in Aesthetics and Art” as follows: “This is what happened with Stephan Rasin for Surkov; While the artist was working on the painting, he removed the type of Persian sultan from the painting because he eliminated the idea of epic heroism and turned it into an anecdote.”[1] (We can see a similar action in many creation stages.) and sometimes, on the contrary, a spot, form, line that appears on the surface instantly and involuntarily. or the color may contribute to the content of the picture.
However, an artist's work is never completely finished. Therefore, the artist is always face to face with the awareness of the 'essential' in his work. While this impermanence conditions him to produce new works; He knows that it is he who will decide where the work he produces will end. In the meantime, the artist should not fall into the trap of the form and repeat himself just because he has been approved by the society or was originally conceived as such.
In a work of art, the content, the essence is always dynamic and the artist should be able to carry this movement into form. If a work of art; if it cannot produce information about its own ideological status, cannot connect with a fact; it cannot reveal a theoretical aspect and cannot escape from being mimetic.
If a painting reveals itself only with the power and beauty of paint without creating any mental scope on the surface, it becomes an ornamental consumption object instead of gaining an -artistic-value.
While creating the language he uses at the artist level, he should bring to the fore only a fact or an element in the technical sense. In a work where all the elements offset each other in the most perfect way, shouting elements (such as the shopkeepers in the market place) will render the work worthless. The ability of a master artist to create an original style only depends on his ability to choose the valuable one among the elements.
The more the artist includes and diversifies the intertwined patterns in his work, the richer the work becomes. However, this confusion should be brought to the purest form in which interests and relations are presented as a whole.
The artwork, which structurally shows the order of unity in multiplicity, brings into existence the invisible in the real world, by adding character to the coincidental on the level of internal consistency and logic.
On the other hand, once the work of art is shared, it becomes a cultural act of the society, not the artist.
The artist's presentation of his work does not consist of memorized patterns like the 'work' of a craftsman or any producer. Although the artist needs some techniques and methods according to the structure of the material he uses during his education, when he embarks on an original creation, he leaves all the techniques, ways and methods he knows aside; aims to go beyond them. This job is not as easy as it seems.

[1] KAGAN,M; Estetik ve Sanat Dersleri, İmge Kitapevi, Çev.Aziz Çalışlar, s.418

"Kimi zaman sanat yapıtları yaşamın içindeki kavram, olay ve olguları bize anlaşılması güç biçimlerde öğretirler ancak; bu zorlu öğretiyi ortaya koyabilmenin başarısı estetik bir değer olarak yapıtta kendini gösterir." 

SOMETIMES I SHOULD BE NEVER;

                        ON THE LIMIT OF HARD TIMES
TO BE NOTHING BUT SELFISH......TO BE NOTHING WITH THE                                CONSCIOUSNESS OF YOUR NEVER.


WATCHING YOURSELF IN THE TRANSPARENT NONE AS A NONE,
                         KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!
IT'S SELFISTIC TO BE EVER WITHOUT WITHDRAWING FROM THE WORLD....


OR DO YOU EVER BE BACK BY FEELING YOUR BODY?

IT IS NOT THE ISSUE OR NOT;
                                         NEVER BEING ITSELF...........

                                                  H.DİLARA GÜRLER ŞAHİN

                                                                  November /2020

The artist's desire to reach the ideal form he wants to create results in the birth of the work. In accordance with the technique transferred to the surface, art is the effect that emerges with the clumsy quests and moments of "possibility" being fixed and materialized from time to time. The person who wants to make humanity taste this flurry of existence between "being" and "not being" is an artist.