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Şükriye Dikmen (1918-2000) Click for Artist Information
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A DESIGNER PAINTER SUKRİYE DIKMEN...
Within Turkish painting, Şükriye Dikmen appears to have achieved originality and uniqueness through her entirely distinctive vision and sensibility, her use of line, color, working style, and in a way, her choice of subjects and the motifs she loves and does not hesitate to repeat in various forms. When we examine her paintings one by one, we may arrive at the following conclusions: in the language of art, the element we call “contour,” which refers to the lines that define the boundaries of forms, plays a primary role in Dikmen’s work. A graceful, elegant, elastic line often smooth, without abrupt edges, favoring curves, arcs, and especially verticals characterizes her style. This element appears most clearly in tree trunks, flowers and leaves, and particularly in faces, especially the faces of young women. For this reason, we may call Şükriye Dikmen a painter of drawing a true master of line.
Nurullah Berk, “Şükriye Dikmen” Ezgi Ajans, 1986
Oil on plywood
51 x 33 cm
1973, signed
This work is included in the book titled "Şükriye Dikmen" prepared by Nurullah Berk and Sezer Tansuğ in 1986.
Provenance: Former Selma Berk Collection
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Şükriye Dikmen (1918 -2000)
Şükriye Dikmen (1918 -2000)
Şükriye Dikmen was born in Istanbul in 1918. Şükriye Dikmen, one of the artists representing the Republican Era generation, graduated from the State Academy of Fine Arts in 1948 and went to Paris. Dikmen, who attracted attention in an art environment like Paris in 1953 when she opened her first exhibition, graduated from the art history department of the Ecole du Louvre and worked with Sergier and Roger Chastel in Fernand Léger's studio and at the Academie Ranson.
She participated in the Edinburgh Festival in 1957 and the Sapenlo competition in 1961. She opened exhibitions in Ankara and Istanbul and organized a retrospective exhibition at the State Academy of Fine Arts in 1968, bringing together her old and new paintings.
She is a single-figure portraitist of women and young girls. Şükriye Dikmen's female figures, usually drawn on plywood, with well-defined borders, large-eyed miniatures, female heads reminiscent of Japanese prints, ovals surrounding faces, eyes that look like bright windows opening to the outside world, thin necks, and folded hands, are the products of her indisputable personality.
The artist passed away on September 16, 2000.
