Sanat Yapma Eyleminde Tekrarlar

Abstract

REPETITIONS IN THE PRACTICE OF ART

Supervisor: Prof. Refa EMRALİ Author: Elvan SERİN

ABSTRACT In the proficiency report in art which is named “Repetitions in the Practice of Art” the word repetition is approached overall as a concept. The practice of repetition, recurrents, gestures and mimics are examined comprehensively and evaluated through examples. The roles repetitions play and the meanings attributed to them were brought out from history to ourday. The long running processes, during which the artists repeat the same simple craft bit by bit innumerable times -just as realising a ritual – are handled. The connection between the artists and their works, their personal lives are examined through their remarkable craft and their manual work. These works, which are created with great passion and which in a way can be categorised as obssessive, are dealt with the explanation of the artists. In these explanations the link between their works and their inner worlds, their process of creating, their motivation is put forward. From a psychoanalytical view, the meditative and theurapatic effects of their work of art have been seen in the lives of those artists who practice recurrences. In this report, it is emphasized that with each repetition the artist could go deeper down in his/her innerworld. The ritualistic character of the recurrences are exposed.

Keywords Repetition, recurrence, craft, process, psychoanalysis.