Özet:

Mr. Osman Hamdi, who realized the principles with the influence of his original and diverse personality in the period in which he lived in Turkish culture and art history, has attracted the interest of his works and many researchers. Therefore, many studies have been carried out on Mr. Osman Hamdi both abroad and abroad. Mr. Osman Hamdi's painting and design skills, intellectuality and reformist personality, the Ottoman art and aesthetic perception have been directed. In this study, the ethnographic works included in Osman Hamdi's life, paintings and paintings. Ethnographic objects have been studied to understand the function of material, technical, composition philosophy and symbolic languages. Osman Hamdi Mr. made his pictures using the oil painting techniques on photography, karakalem sketch and towel. His paintings have been effectively depicted by the enterrior, figurative, naturmort, landscape, portrait and janr. She was the first artist in Turkish painting art to use the female figure in figurative compositions. Mr. Osman Hamdi, who painted in the orientalistic style, designed compositions in response to the European orientalistic artists. European Orientalist artists have included in their interior paintings, in their compositions, Eastern-specific metals. So they strengthened the Eastern influence. But sometimes they used ethnographic works of different cultural regions together in their paintings. Like other orientalist artists, Osman Hamdi Mr. used ethnographic works in his paintings. He placed the examples of traditional crafts, which are historic value he observed or photographed in different places, in the composition by choosing according to the subject of the painting. His preferred ethnographic works have been visual elements that strengthen the message desired to be given in symbolic-sembolic meanings, as it strengthens the impact of the interior design.