THOUGHTS ON THE TURKISH ART SCANE IN THE 80’S AND THE CHANGE PROCESS

The phenomenon implied by the reality of change in Anatolia has mostly been and is being accelerated by the high speed of vital systems. The period which Turkey stepped into after 1950’s, which was the decade when this speed was felt the most intensely, indicates a shift from a traditional agricultural society to a modern society, which formed in hundreds of years socially, artistically, culturally, economically, and politically. Although it experienced problems in certain stages of the change, there was a new formation in the social structure of Turkey. Artists, who cannot be considered separate from the society, adopted the identity, the lifestyle, and the behavior codes of the group of which they were a part, became one of the components of the cultural change, and interpreted their creations according to necessities of the era. It must be mentioned that, to understand the Turkish art, new tendencies which emerged after 1980’s are just as important and valuable as stages witnessed by the Turkish art until 1980’s. Although the process of change experienced by the Turkish art beginning from 1950’s is the result of a synthesis that exceeds boundaries, the Turkish art tried to find its own path by representing its own values. While it is possible to observe social impacts of the political mobility experienced in 1980’s in particular, this political mobility triggered a different formation in artistic creations as well. Associations which may be attributed to a return to individualism, yet assessed within a context of community as well, are alternative findings of an advanced stage in that they represent conceptual initiatives in the Turkish art. This study performs an assessment regarding how art movements which emerged in the mentioned periods associated sociological matters of the world, and sociological matters of Turkey by extension, with art using an interpretive discourse. The study aims to reach its final goal by focusing on practices of creations with conceptual discourses, which wander around at the margins of art-text