Özet:

The development of contemporary art, despite the hundreds of years of history of the West, in our country, has a process of about a hundred to fifty years. Nevertheless, today, the point where the Turkish Art has arrived has reached a level that cannot be underestimated at all. In our country, many internationally recognized artists and thinkers have grown up. However, despite all these developments, the Turkish Art has not yet reached the place it deserves at the international level; our artists have not been able to show up a "price" at the international level. In our country, the fact that art events and institutions that provide art education, until a recent past, have been limited to major cities such as Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir, has led artists not to have sufficient interest in Anadolu, the carrier of the country’s culture, not to have sufficient nutrition from their roots, not to have sufficient interaction with their cultures. As the art events and institutions that provide art education are now spreading to many cities of Anadolu, it is believed that a new bridge between Anadolu and Istanbul and the West will be established, a new interaction, and as a result, the development of Turkish Art at the international level will gain a new momentum. Because, Western Art has achieved its success throughout the historical development process, by the interaction of foreign cultures, as well as its own culture and cultures close to its own culture. Our country’s geography has also hosted the world’s civilizations, and has a world’s rich heritage in terms of “cultural existence”. This heritage has many qualities that will keep the light of the young artist candidates in our country, their works and bring them to the international level. The development of modern art in our country has only a hundred or a hundred and fifty years old background when compared to the West which has the background of hundreds of years. However, so far the Turkish art has reached a level that cannot be underestimated easily. Many artists and philosophers, who are known in international area, have been grown up in our country. Despite all these developments, the Turkish art has not reached the level that it deserves and our artists have not produced an international "masterpiece".   Artistic activities and the institutions that give art education in our country are mostly limited to the big cities such as Ankara, Istanbul and İzmir, until recently. This situation caused in artists' not to pay enough attention to Anatolia which can be defined as the culture transformer of the country, not to be able to be fed by their own culture and not to get in enough interaction with their culture. It is believed that, there is going to be constituted a bridge and an interaction between Anatolia, Istanbul and the West, and this is going to be resulted in a new rise in the Turkish art by the help of the dissemination of artistic activities and the institutions that give art education to the cities in Anatolia. Because, Western Art has realised its success during its historical development, period by interacting with its own culture and the similar cultures besides the different ones.   Our country is constituted in an area that hosted many deep-rooted civilizations in the past and so it has the richest inheritance of "cultural assets" in the world. This inheritance would be a guide for the young artist candidates in their works and carry them to the international level.