Neşet Günal’ın İzinde Türk Resminde Tarımda Kadın İmgesi: Sosyolojik Bir Çözümleme
The Image of Woman in Agriculture in Turkish Art in the Way of Neşet Günal

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the image of rural woman in the paintings of Neset Günal within the context of structural relations of Turkish agriculture. He is an important pioneer of social realist current in Turkish painting. The themes of social realist art have always been the nationalization, the Westernization, relations of employer and employee, the fact of “gecekondu”, peasantry, and relations of peasantry and landlord and land problems. The paintings of Neşet Günal will be analyzed by taking into account the social and economic situation of the country during the periods they are produced. These periods form the conceptual framework of this paper. The analysis of social and economic conditions in relation with rural woman necessitates problems below: Is rural woman an aesthetic art object? Is rural woman an unpaid family labour in reproduction and production processes? Moreover, the image of woman is painted in the framework of social reality. Main theme of works of Neşet Günal is “The People of Middle Anatolia and Its Reality”. For him “the reality in art is the reality of human and society at the same time”. Within the 23 paintings of Neşet Güpnal that are chosen in a chronological order, the relation of woman to “wage labor”, unpaid household labor”, sexual division of labor”, subsistence economy” and “land” will be analyzed.

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