The Traces of the Turkish Petroglyphs in the Works of A. R. Penck

Through the data that emerge with this research, under the examples of A. R. Penck, it has been aimed to notice that the modern Western art was shaped under the light of those mysterious documents that reflect the Turkish culture. In this study the works of Neo-expressionist artist A. R. Penck’s are chosen among a few artists who had adopted the same style, and the Turkish cave paintings and stamps alongside with the artist’s works have been comparatively scrutinized. To give an example out of the signs and illustrations that he had used in his works, it is seen that he had used many symbols in accordance to his artistic style that belong to the Turks such as Kün-Ay stamp, the four arrow sign, the single dot inside the circle that indicates that an oath has been taken, countable stone symbols of planets, shaman and tengri figures