Abstract:

İbrahim Çallı is a Turkish painting artist who is one of the prominent names of Turkish painting art and had his name written in a period. He interrupted his art education in France in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire (before 1914) and returned to Anatolia and succeeded in making a name even in a war period (World War I) with his artworks and the artist group he founded. With his art and colorful personality, he became one of the leading Turkish artists, taken as an example by the art community. He was an artist who adopted the Republic's revolutions on the way to modernization after the proclamation of the Republic as well as the general characteristics of his nation and painted the life of the society, the nature of the country, and the portrait of Atatürk, the founder of the state, with his request. He was the painter of modern, original, socialist, colorful, pleasant conversational, and impressionist paintings. In this research, the versatility of the Turkish painter İbrahim Çallı and his contributions to Turkish painting art were examined.