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Mustafa Esirkuş (1921 - 1986) Click for Artist Information
"Fisherman"
Marine Life and Fishermen as a Local Myth Model: How did the interest in the lives of people who make their living from the sea begin in Esirkuş's art, and what were the factors that led him to paint around this interest? We do not have enough information or data to answer this question. In his fishermen paintings he paint these people as pulling nets from the sea, weaving nets, casting their nets into the sea to catch fish, chatting among themselves, sharing their rations, guarding the dive, carrying fish boxes after the return of the catch, or as a fishing family.
Kaya Özsezgin, "Mustafa Esirkuş", İş Bankası Kültür Publishers, 2006, page 46
Oil on hardboard
58 x 21 cm
signed
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Mustafa Esirkuş
Mustafa Esirkuş (1921 - 1989)
He was born in Istanbul in 1921. He graduated from Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts (now known as Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University) Painting Department, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu Workshop. During his student period at the Academy, he participated in the establishment of the Group of Ten with his close workshop friends (such as Nedim Günsür, Turan Erol, Orhan Peker and Nevin Çokay). Esirkuş contributed paintings to the group exhibitions opened by this group, opened his first personal exhibition at the Turkish German Cultural Center in Istanbul in 1963, and then opened 19 personal exhibitions in Istanbul and Ankara, one or two years apart. He worked as an art teacher in various regions of Anatolia for a while. Between 1969 and 1977, he worked as an expert in the restoration workshop of the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum.
The basis of Esirkuş's painting language is his closeness to local subjects. Although the artist followed his teacher's footsteps and adopted figure deformation and smear interpretation in his older paintings on the subject of "Fish Market", he entered a period of intense work that would form his true identity, starting with a series of paintings depicting the marine life of fishermen in the early 1970s. He left aside the academic-based pattern around this subject and adopted a more sincere and unbiased narrative. Nature and humans shaped Esirkuş's paintings as two basic elements that complement each other in a local atmosphere, and fishermen weaving nets or selling fish constituted the artist's main area of interest. Insistent closeness to a certain subject has been the main basis of consistency of essence and form in Esirkuş, as in other painters of his generation. Dark blue, shades of blue and grays dominate his paintings. Mustafa Esirkuş's large-scale paintings give the impression at first glance that one is dealing with a self-taught painter, far from an academic art discipline. The ordinary appearance of the pattern, which does not require excessive academic mastery, is a natural result of the purity, simplicity and sincerity that he aims to achieve in painting.
He received the Academy Art Award in 1965 and the second prize at the State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition in 1969. He won the first prize in the Istanbul Opera Incentive Awards Competition in the same year, the 50th Anniversary Atatürk and Republic Award in 1973, and the first prize in the Akbank Painting Competition in 1979. Esirkuş passed away in Istanbul in 1989.
