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Armchair Series IV By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin Turkey Painting, Oil on Canvas Size: 142 W x 162 H x 3.5 D cm

Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin's Art

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Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin is an expressionist artist. Therefore, her art is associated with "German Expressionism", sincere art, "Psychological Art", "Primitive Art", "Symbolic Art" and the Philosophy of Existence. Her artistic subjects and concepts are often based on moments and memories she lived and dreamed of. Life is intuitive, as precious as moments and memories that make her feel meaning, excitement, passion ... Imagination and wishes intensified, How it should be or unexpected and mockingly, moments full of humor and energy ... Vacation, solution, aphorisms, proposition, inference, conclusion includes moments, memories, and thoughts.

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Instant mood changes, psychological analysis and synthesis, moments of awareness and comprehension ... Anxiety, fear, joy, sadness, pain, enthusiasm, etc. situations, phenomena and events ... Life stories and personal descriptions, concepts, traumas, existential and subconscious stories ...

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Topics such as female energy, self-worth, self-esteem, self-love, self-confidence, energy, balance, connection, quantum and mysticism.

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Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin makes introspection and research also paint their own life and dreams with all this taken, imaginary combination. She creates her life and dreams with an imaginary composite and orchestration on all these issues. She expresses her feelings and thoughts with expressiveness, enthusiasm and passion with fast, instant, strong colors and expressions. Whatever her art is her existential act and attitude in life. And the discipline to learn on her own. Focusing on looking at life, memories and moments with art is to understand what her live, see and feel, and that she can look at her mind, soul, heart, inner world. Understanding and staying in the moment is a way to allow for her life. Expressing the subject in a powerful, enthusiastic and meaningful way, she has to make a spiritual and essential art, in the most accurate and sincere way, both in a psychological and human environment. "Who knows your own essence" knows your Rab " and "Whatever you are looking for, search within yourself!''  These words are a mystical purpose of her art style. And her art as a discipline to learn all this from herself.  For her, focusing on looking at life, memories and moments through art is an effort to look at one's own life, research and feelings, consciousness, mind, soul, heart, inner world, and to understand and to be yourself. The artist sees her purpose in doing all these as knowing and being herself. For her, "understanding" and "staying in the present" is a way of knowing and living in an expressive way. She continues to make  maintain a spiritual and fundamental art by expressing herself at the most direct and sincere, subjective, powerful, enthusiastic and meaningful way, both psychologically and humanly.

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Art Concepts and Reports

Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin's understanding of art and art concepts-report: 8.5. Contemporary Expressionist and New Expressionist Tendencies-Examples from Young Generation Artists 8.5.1. Göknil Gümüş (b. 1977) graduated from Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty in 2000. She completed her master's degree at Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department. Göknil Gümüş emphasizes an Expressionism-centered understanding in her statements, where she tries to place her own understanding of art in her  period. Her expressionism is selfish and emphasizes her own experiences and testimonies of private life: ''Evolution is the development of young artists in the context of expressionism in Turkish painting after 1980 and where am I in this development? ''

'' We call those who are amateurs, children, mentally ill, drug addicts, primitive-naive painters who do not know the existence of the Expressionism movement, as Expressionists. The emphasis here is on expressing art and expressionism from the heart. Expressionist art is not shown, even if the purpose seems to reveal color, style, exuberance, explosion, confusing, traumatic, or irony. This is just a result.

When I talk about my own expressionism, my expressionism, I am talking directly about my psychological and artistic process. My art is an individual, subjective art. Like all Expressionists, I have experienced, influenced, seen, imagined, internalized, now I share with you to activate your perception, awareness, thought and emotion. This is what I can say socially as I present my work to the audience. This is the social aspect of my art. I don't know if my art is about society, my trauma, my pain, my sincerity, my enthusiasm, my ideas and intuitions about society. I know how to exist, how can I be myself?

Art is my way of being. It is the action that makes me question my existence and allows me to live the moments I am. A sincere, original, free, sincere, meaningful and conscious creation - production process. Trying to be myself...

My art criterion is whether my art is 'the same thing', 'the more 'same thing', the better art'. I think 'good painting' or 'good art' is my inner dynamics, my inner disciplines compel me to this, my eye wants to see it this way and it is built on the 'right' that comes from my solution. If I could keep my energy high and stick to what's coming from me, I could do what seems good, right, and beautiful. The setup of my paintings, the composition of colors, the brightness and intensity of colors, I am tired, but so is my mind. There is the mathematics, the mathematics of inner necessity. That arm, that limb, it's like it's exaggerated, bent, or amateurish, because I think that's the effect of my expression. Fast, powerful, but I need to be controlled in my own way. As I drive the colour, your breath, the trembling of your hand, the movement, the distance between the canvas, the consistency of the paint, the preservation, my body movement,  enthusiasm,  courage, energy, mood, passion… I have to control everything. The starting points of my art are different. The things that I think affect me, my life,  experiences,  nostalgic moments, sometimes  anger,  pain ... The things that I find meaning, the facts ... The things I wonder, the things that attract me are my mind.

Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin is an expressionist artist. Therefore, her art is associated with "German Expressionism", sincere art, "Psychological Art", "Primitive Art", "Symbolic Art" and the Philosophy of Existence. Her artistic subjects and concepts are often based on moments and memories she lived and dreamed of. Life is intuitive, as precious as moments and memories that make her feel meaning, excitement, passion ... Imagination and wishes intensified, How it should be or unexpected and mockingly, moments full of humor and energy ... Vacation, solution, aphorisms, proposition, inference, conclusion includes moments, memories, and thoughts.

”(Demirbaş, 2015)
Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Institute of Social Sciences, Art and Design Department, Announced Stories in Turkish Painting After 1980, Ugur Demirbas, Master's Thesis, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cevat Demir, Istanbul, 2016.
In this thesis, Ugur Demirtas also benefited from Artist Göknil Gümü Sungurttekin's master's thesis "Expressionism in Turkish Painting 2005".
(T.R Marmara University Fine Arts Institute Painting Department, Expressionism in Contemporary Turkish Painting , Göknil Gümüs, Prof. Dr. Cevat Demir, Istanbul, 2005)
T.R. Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Institute Of Social Siences Department of Art History Western  Art and Comtemporary Art Program Between 1975-2005 ''Total Exhbitions ''And Conceptionalization In Turkey's Art Production , Prepared by Solmaz Bunultay Advisor: Prof. Dr. Semra GERMANER ISTANBUL–2008

 

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