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Abstract

Ahmadi Amineh, Paintings of The Nightmare, Master Thesis, Ankara, 2017. Analyzing the dreams and nightmares which were seen during sleep time and searching for meaning of them is a one way to reach to the subconscious of human beings to achieve the origin of their desires and fears in psychology science. In the same time, in the process of art creating, subconscious provided a rich repository for the artists in the several periods of history of art. In some art movements like surrealism, exploring of subconscious undertook the central position in the creation of art. From this point of view, we can find the relationship between psychology science and art world. Although the reality of having dreams or nightmares is common among all human beings but according to the distinctness of every individual, the modality of this reality is partly personal. The living style and life story of every mankind reflect in all dreams and nightmares which they have but there are so important commonalities in the psychological condition of all humanity in general. These commonalities are based on common fears and hopes of human beings and expressed themselves as symbols through history of culture and art. The origin of grotesque art genre which attaches more importance to the dark side of dreaming is found in the nightmares. The samples of such approach to the art can be found in all throughout history between different cultures. Grotesque art tries to deconstruct the habitual reality with anomaly, strangeness and terrifying attribute and it efforts to cross beyond all boundaries of normal things. By applying to this method, it takes aim at artistic originality. In this project, I set out on a journey to find a nutritional source for my paintings by linking the roots of grotesque art with my nightmares and dreams which were inspired by my own subconscious world. In this process, I took quotations from history of art and besides, I utilized illuminating helps from psychology. If all emerging works of this process are read as a series, they create the personal world of mine as a whole.