Özet:

From the primeval era the earth element, which is one of the four elements admitted as the principle of creatures has intervened humankind to understand the world. The earth, which is the subject of philosophy, mythology, history of religions, chemistry, physics, psychology and cosmology, is important for artistic expression in terms of various symbolic meaning. Earth, with mother goddess idols, represents the fertility, plenty fullness and conservation. The earth being the inseparable part of the universe during the formation phase in philosophy or the belief that living creatures came from earth and go back to it, has effected context of artworks. In the research, the earth will be discussed from the point where the whole meaning layers came together, in terms of contribution to lifecircle. The aim of the study is how the physical transformation and change of earth has effected the universe’s being and how lifecircle has effected philosophy, mythology and artworks. The works which are determined by earth element symbolically from the late Gothic to after modernism, will be analysed by qualitative research method.

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