MIGRATION THEME IN ART
Abstract
Migration means that an alive is going to move from one place to another
where it is from its own will or necessity. There are many reasons as
political, social, cultural and economical under the immigration which has an
important place within national and international borders. For example,
migrations after 1950s in Turkey were mainly due to economic reasons, and
today, wars and internal disturbances are pushing the people to migration.
Migration, which has a traumatic or emotional meaning in terms of displacement
or abandonment has been the subject of so many arts from literature to poetry,
cinema, painting.
In this research, it was tried to explain the causes of migration, the
results, how they shape the lives of the individuals and how the artists convey
the theme of migration to their artworks. While some artists have moved the
theme of immigration into their works by being close to a sensitivity or social
events; others have experienced immigration, which they have experienced
completely and personally, and that they have carried this and traces left in their societies on their
artworks. In particular, in recent years the concepts are actively involved in
the examination of the migration of contemporary artists such as refugees,
immigrants, borders, identity, remove, movement, abandonment, being in place,
separation, destruction, new home, freedom and life. It is seen that they are
carrying out this difficult process of migration with objects, people, space
fictions by means of visual images. They carry the state of nonbelonging to
aesthetic dimension and they are also in the point of attracting attention to
this issue through art and creating awareness in the society. Especially the
global aspect of contemporary art, the fact that in preparing for the multiple
debates of artists from different cultures, despite they do not live migrants
in individual or national sense; As an immigrant, visitor or explorer, they are
able to travel around the borders, to be informed and to carry it to their
works.
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Primary Language
English
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
September 1, 2017
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Year 2017 Volume: 1 Number: 1