ART AND FIGHT FOR RECOGNITION

Abstract

This study is about people who fight for recognition on its conceptual background, while visualizing rulership and oppressive practices of rulers via the signs of power and governance like bull. Since the Renaissance, art and politics have been in the span of propaganda - avant-garde protest art. Likewise our time has been documented by the images of the "Last Human" and "Poster" series and this study that contain power and governance symbols visualized by the bull and its associations. The conceptually strong new narrative language that has shaped by the poster series is named as "Materialist Synthetic Reality". Collage is used as a narration, and oil painting on canvas is used as material. For people, desire for recognition is like blood and breath. When this desire is based on ideals, there shall be miracles. However, when systematically poor educated people who are far from scientific rationality fill the emptiness left behind lack of ideals by dogmas, the consequences shall be unpredictable and under these circumstances, history shall repeat more than twice and more tragically every time.