Ortaçağ’dan modernizme değişen fikirler doğrultusunda bati resim sanatinda güzeli arayiş
Searching for Beauty in Western Painting in the Light of Ideas Changing from Medieval Age to Modernism

Summary/Abstract: “Art” and the accompanying “beauty” have never been topics that might be defined easily. The elements, purposes, ideational and social status of art have been in a continuous change as sociological, economical, cultural and political parameters of every era evolves; and artists have been 436 in search of different point of views and in consequence, have introduced different aesthetic approaches. While the medieval art of the Western world serves completely for religious purposes and does not consider beauty as an element to be related to art; the Renaissance seeks the beauty as a component of art in cultural heritage. However, the necessity for the painting to have an educative and didactic expression is the fundamental rule for this era and the subject of painting is usually based on the Bible and other holy, historical, literal, and even fictional manuscripts. This situation persists in a similar manner until the eighteenth century; to move beyond borders that were detected and crossed accidently was only possible in the eighteenth century. From the beginning of this century, visual arts detract from textualism and people become more attracted to its unique qualities, and this approach exercised a great influence on the modernism of twenty-first century. In the modern approach, painting is analyzed within the frame of basic elements of plastic. Philosophers and artists from every era have tried to define and interpret art in the light of ever-changing ideas of every era. The aim of this article is to analyze these interpretations over the Western painting from the Medieval age to Twenty-First Century.

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