Özet:

In contemporary Turkish painting, the "locality/nationality" issue has formed one of the important topics that have been discussed until today. The XIX. From the century to the influence of Western painting to a new identity in the Turkish painting art as a response to the Western imitation to the "local/national" values first began to slowly appear among the military painters, but in the framework of the search for "national identity" which began after the Republic's announcement, it was re-incinated with efforts to create national art. The Republican period painters believed in their works to create national art, primarily to choose the Anatolian people and the nature in which they live as a subject, to rely on the national culture, this belief, when combined with the principle of populism of the Republic, has also been the priority subject in the painting of the Anatolian people, life and environment. This understanding has been accepted as a way to reach from locality to nationality and from there to universality in contemporary Turkish painting.

Turgut Zaim's art, which is one of the important representatives of contemporary Turkish painting and considers this concept as a basic starting point in the creation of a national painting art, is a typical and unique example of "local/national" Turkish painting. In his works of artists who take its source from traditional Turkish painting, but absorb it from a contemporary point of view, he has captured the national art understanding by transmitting cuts from the life of the Anadolu people, using the form and translation of the traditional Turkish painting, which extends from Uyghur paintings to miniature art.

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