TURKISH ART

ART

‘’ART IS EXPRESSION OF CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION.’’

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but is most often understood to refer to painting, film, photography, sculpture and other visual media.

Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences, but in modern usage the fine arts are distinguished from acquired skills in general.

Our Country’s Culture

‘’TURKEY’’

Turkish Folklore : In Turkey folklore studies began at the beginning of the 20th century. Ziya Gökalp mentioned folklore (“halkiyat”) in the magazine “Towards the People” in 1913. Later Riza Tevfik Bölükbasi and Mehmet Fuat Köprülü wrote articles on the subject in various magazines. A Folklore Association was set up in 1927 and the “People’s Houses” (1932) both carried out important survey work in this field. Today these activities are continued in various univercity faculties.

Art: Our country have different handcrafts like tile, ceramic , porselain etc.

Orhan Alkaya

Orhan Alkaya is a famous actor and director. He is also a writer and has six books. He wrote for newspapers and encyclopedia as well. Nowadays he works for Istanbul City Theatres as Art Director.

We had an interview with Orhan Alkaya. Here is our interview;

Mert Yavuzcan

Mert Yavuzcan was born in Bonn-Germany in 1979. He lived in different countries during his teens, including Greece, Kuwait, Ireland, England, Cyprus and Turkey because of his fathers work.

His interest in music and acting started when he was 15 years old with having roles in musical plays. At the age of 18 he got in the Bilkent University Performing Arts Acting department. Since 1997 he continues to work as a professional actor in theater, films, series and commercials.

Awards
16.Sadri Alisik Theater and Cinema Awards / 2011
Awarded as the best supporting actor of the year/ Marat- Sade & Bacchae

We had an interview with Mert Yavuzcan. Here is our interview;

Reference: http://mertyavuzcan.com/biography.htm

Mert Tanık

Mert Tanık is a famous actor who was born in Ankara in 1972. He graduated from Bilkent University Theatre Department. He has acted in many well-known plays. He is acting in Istanbul City Theatres.

We had an interview with Mert Tanık. Here is our interview;

Oğuz Atay

Oğuz Atay was a pioneer of the modern novel in Turkey. His first novel,Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected), appeared 1971-72. Never reprinted in his lifetime andcontroversial among critics, it has become a best-seller since a new edition came out in 1984. It has been described as “probably the most eminent novel of twentieth-century Turkish literature”: this reference is due to a UNESCO survey, which goes on: “it poses an earnest challenge to even the most skilled translator with its kaleidoscope of colloquialisms and sheer size.”

His first creative work, Tutunamayanlar, was awarded the prize of Turkish Radio Television Institution, TRT in 1970, before it had been published. He went on to write another novel and a volume of short stories among other works.

Reference: wikipedia

Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk is aTurkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing.

One of Turkey's most prominent novelists,his work has sold over eleven million books in sixty languages,making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006, the first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a Turkish citizen.

Reference: wikipedia

Türkan Şoray

She made her film debut in 1960 at just 15 years old with the film Aşk Rüzgarı(The Wind of Love). After the movie's success Türkan started to be advised by a Yeşilçam screenwriter, film director and producer Türker İnanoğlu. It is he, who would in the same year, sack Türkan's close friend Emel Yıldız in order to give his new prodigy the leading role in the studio's upcoming movie Köyde Bir Kız Sevdim(Falling in Love with a Girl in the Villiage).

For the next five years, Şoray appeared in over sixty films. After her 1965 triumph, she was named as one of Turkey's four leading actresses. But this was also the year when her career was in turmoil. Her starring in stereotyped roles, in films with the same plot and story lines, drove people away from her and harmed her fame. This led to several arguments with some film producers and as a result she was dismissed by most of them. Türkan Şoray knew, in order to survive, she would have to take control quickly and she did.

She won her first of many awards when she received the best actress prize at the 'Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival' for the film Acı Hayat(Bitter Love).

Reference: wikipedia

Şener Şen

Şener Şen is a Turkish film and theatre actor, who has won the Golden Orange for Best Actor twice for his roles in Mr. Muhsin (1985) and Lovelorn(2005), the Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor for Çöpçüler Krali (1977) and a Golden Orange Lifetime Achievement Award.

Şener Şen began acting in 1958 at the age of 17 as an amateur at the Yeşil Sahne Theater in Cağaloğlu. From 1964 to 1966 he taught in elementary schools in the villages of eastern Anatolia. In 1966 he returned to the stage at the City Theater in Istanbul. He made his film debut with a small role in the drama film So-Called Girls (1967), directed by Nejat Saydam.

He maintained a prolific output throughout the 70's as a supporting cast member in a number of films by popular Turkish comedy actor Kemal Sunal, most significantly as Body Ekrem in the Hababam Sınıfı film series, and in 1978 he received the Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor for Çöpçüler Krali (1977), directed by Zeki Ökten.

From 1980 to 1982 he continued his theater work in Germany. His first leading film role was alongside Müjde Ar in the comedy The Shalvar Trouser Trial (1983), directed by Kartal Tibet, for which he was named Best Film Actor by a number of film and stage publications, and he won the Golden Orange for Best Actor for his roles in Mr. Muhsin (1985), written and directed by Yavuz Turgul.

He starred in the award-winning The Bandit (1996), written and directed by Yavuz Turgul, for which he was also the executive producer. In 2004 he received a Golden Orange Lifetime Achievement Award and he won the Golden Orange for Best Actor a second time for his role inLovelorn (2005), also written and directed by Yavuz Turgul.

Reference: wikipedia

Ajda Pekkan

Ajda Pekkan was born on February 12, 1946, in Istanbul. She is a Turkish pop singer and actress. Through a career spanning five decades thus far, Pekkan has released more than 20 albums and, with Sezen Aksu, is the most commercially successful female Turkish music artist with the sales of over 30 million copies worldwide. She is nicknamed the "Superstar" of Turkish pop music. Although famed for her music, Pekkan started her career as an actress with appearances in almost 50 films. During her music career, Pekkan has recorded songs in nine languages. Apart from Turkish, she is also fluent in English andFrench.

With the help of her sister, Semiramis, she began singing at the popular Istanbul nightclub Çatı (Roof) in 1962. The following year, Pekkan won a Cover Star contest sponsored by the Turkish music magazine Ses ("Voice") and was launched on a professional career.

The success of her songs resulted in a series of Turkish-language concerts with Enrico Macias at the Paris Olympia in 1976. In acknowledgement of her nickname, Pekkan released an album called Superstar in 1977. The same year, she participated in the Yamaha Music Festival in Tokyo to great success. She released German and French records in the early 1970s, and her Pour Lui, became very successful in France. At this pinnacle, she released her second album Süperstar II in 1979.

Reference: wikipedia

Tarkan

Tarkan is a World Music award winning Turkish pop singer. He was born in Alzey,West Germany, and raised in Turkey. Tarkan has been nicknamed the "Prince of Pop" by the media. He has released several platinum-selling albums during his career, with an estimated 29 million albums and singles sold. He also produces music through his company HITT Music, which he established in February 1997. One of a few European singers that has managed to span chart success over three continents without singing in English, the artist is also noted for his live stage performances. Tarkan's effect on Turkey has been compared by The Washington Post as analogous to Elvis in America circa 1957 and Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegün described him as one of the best live performers he had ever seen. He has also been listed by Rhapsody as a key artist in the history of European pop music, with his signature song"Şımarık" as a keystone track that moved the genre forward.

Reference: wikipedia

Sezen Aksu

Sezen Aksu released her first single, Haydi Şansım/Gel Bana in 1975 under the name of Sezen Seley. However, she remained undiscovered until her 1976 single Olmaz Olsun/Vurdumduymaz reached number one in the Turkish charts. Her first album was 1978's Serçe, which was to give her the nickname, penned by a Turkish journalist.

She returned to her roots with Adı Bende Saklı, which was released in 1998. She began to use experimental sounds and was once again pushing Turkish pop into the future. Aksu continued with this trend with her subsequent albums Deliveren(Crazymaker), Şarkı Söylemek Lazım (Gotta Sing) which also featured former Sparks bassist Martin Gordon as engineer/mixer (and also as bass player on her subsequent European tour), Yaz Bitmeden (Before The Summer Ends) between the years 2000 - 2003. After a two year hiatus, she returned with Bahane (Excuse) in 2005. That same year she released Kardelen (Snowdrop) where all proceeds went to charity, and before the end of 2005 released a Bahane/Remixes (Excuse/Remixes) double-CD album which contained the original Bahane album in disc one and the remixes of songs in Bahane in disc two. At the end of the year her albums Bahane, Kardelen and the re-released albumŞarkı Söylemek Lazım were the three best-selling albums in the country.

Reference: wikipedia

How to Start an Acting Career

To start an acting career is not that easy you need to know how to use your talent special ways for example you can;

An acting career can be a full-time or part-time thing. If you want it to be full-time, you must have the time to dedicate to it, because chances are in the first couple of years at least, you might not be making enough money to support yourself, so you will need either a base of money to fall back on or you will need to have streams of residual or passive income coming in so that you don't have to worry about how you will pay the rent but on the other hand if you suceed in your acting career you wouldn’t need to think about the financial crisis.

Study the industry. Learn how it works. Learn what agents and casting directors do and what they expect from actors and actresses. Learn why they are in the business they are in. Learn who casts the different projects there are. Learn about the different ways that actors can ensure their work gets seen.

Bibliography

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en.wikipedia.org

mertyavuzcan.com

www.gnoxis.com