Abstract:

Utku Varlık, who produced political works with original painting techniques such as engraving and lithography in the first years of his art life, changed his understanding of art after the mid-70s and produced works of fantasy with oil painting and penture techniques. Being interested in Renaissance art and artists in the first years of his education, he sought different ways to find his own understanding of art in the following period. Compositions created with fantastic elements, without the perception of time and space, draw attention in the works of Varlık, who also nourishes his art with different branches of art such as photography and literarture. The artist focused on the theme of woman, one of the oldest and most common subjects in painting, and made it main subject of his art. He mysteriously depicts the representations of women in his works with the tulle details he uses in the imaginary places he called it the “Garden of Delusions”. In this study, since the number of the artist's paintings on women is high, only his works from the end of the 70s to the present are examined in 10-year periods in chronological order and it has been focused on his approach to the subject of women, which plays an important role in his art.