SANATTA UYKU TEMASI VE İŞİTSEL RÜYA İMGELERİ

Abstract

The relationship between sleep, dreams, and auditory imagery is examined within the context of art history and the visual arts, beginning with its biological foundations. The biological structure of sleep—a fundamental necessity for maintaining human mental and physical balance—and the dream experience that takes shape during REM and non-REM stages form the conceptual foundation of this research. Within the scope of this thesis, the dream experience is first examined through the lens of insomnia, perception, imagery, and the construction of space. In the second chapter, by tracing the traces of sleep and dreams in art history, the thesis explores modernism, Odilon Redon’s images of nightmares, surrealism, and the relationship between sound and music in painting. In the final section of the study, the lullaby is evaluated as a threshold experience and an auditory image; it analyzes the use of sound and the lullaby as a medium in the visual arts through the connection between collective memory and the visual image. The purpose of this study is to examine the process by which lullabies and sound— as auditory elements in the transition from sleep to wakefulness—merge with visual imagery in the plastic arts to become a contemporary work of art, and to highlight the conceptual insights this process yields.