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Weaving Machine (1785) Edmund Cartwright

Week 13

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Galileo’s Telescope (1609)

Week 12

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Telescope. Isaac Newton (1608)

Week 11

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MoLego

Byzantine Series San Vitale Collection

Week 9

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Toy Design Salt Archive

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Toy Design Salt Archive

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Tomur Atagök, "Tormented Woman", 1975

It was built by Tomur Atagök in1975. Our artist painted this work on fabric. When we look at the content of the painting, you do not understand what the figures are. But the artist's feminist feelings stand out in this painting. In the painting, it is as if we see a woman lying towards the fire. It emphasizes violence against women.

Salt Archive, ATAG1582,1975

Tomur Atagök, "Kultepe Goddess II", 2006

The artist painted the Kultepe Goddess II on a metal material in 2006. The upper part of the painting reads "goddess from Anatolia". The artist was inspired by the mother goddesses of Anatolia. She depicted this kind of goddesses as showing the lake to women. In the painting, the woman's body is clear and indistinct. He drew her naked but did not give details. She looks like she has a cloak on to give the appearance of a goddess.

Salt Archive, ATAG1600, 2006

Tomur Atagök, "Ordinary Women", 2009

Tomur Atagök, "Fall", painted in 1962, is an oil painting. In this painting, the painter preferred dark colors compared to other paintings, for example colors such as black and red. Normally the painter prefers more colorful paints like pink. In this painting, the painter depicts women watching from their balconies in "The Fall". It is an abstract work. Exactly the figures and the subject are not clear.

Salt Archive, ATAG1602, 2009

Tomur Atagök, "The Fall", 1962

Made in 2009 by Tomur Atagök. It was painted on metal and also used pieces of paper. When we look at the picture, we see 5 different female figures. Corresponding to each other. They are looking at each other. The women's hair and clothes are painted and have little detail. The facial details of the women are not very prominent and again a female subject dominates. Salt Archive, ATAG1556,1962

Tomur Atagök, "Among Women", 2009

Tomur Atagök, "Interwomen" made in 2009. Acrylic on paper. There are 4 different muscles in the painting. They all have different appearances. It is difficult to find where the background is. In between, one of them is dressed as a belly dancer, the other is half-naked and neatly dressed women. In this way we see different types of women's clothes. Not all of them have facial details, but they are trying to show their emotions, for example, some are laughing, others are unresponsive.

Salt Archive, ATAG1624,2009

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Tomur Atagök

The artist I chose from the Salt archive is Tomur Atagök. She designed works and products between 1938-1970. She is an artist, educator and museologist. She was the deputy director of the Istanbul Painting Museum from 1980-1984. She has extensive research on the history of museums in Turkey and on women artists. In December 2018, the Tomur Atagök archive was presented by Salt Research. She had a different understanding of art. When you look at each of her works, different results are obtained personally. She has worked on women artists. She became an advocate for women's rights by initiating the first museum education in Turkey. She has an abstract understanding in his works. It includes images of human bodies and images from the outside world. There are also works and photographs on religion, peace, wars, games and toys.In general, the main subjects in his works have been women and she has worked on feminist concerns.

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Hippodrama and Little Hagia Sophia

Week 3

The first stop on our trip was the hippodrome in Sultan Ahmet. In Roman times, gladiator battles, parades and chariot races were held in this hippodrome. Thanks to these races, people used to have fun. One of the reasons for these events was to show the power of the king. In this way, the king could show all his enemies how good a warrior his soldiers were. There are many historical buildings and artifacts in and around the area where the hippodrome is located. First of all, we examined the obelisk in the hippodrome. The obelisk was brought to Istanbul from Egypt by the Roman emperor in 390 AD. The reasons why it was brought from Egypt show its power and that Egypt belonged to the Roman Empire. There are figures belonging to Egypt on the upper part of this long stone. In the lower part of the stone, there are figures made using Roman art. This stone has 4 different faces, and each face depicts different things. First of all, they made the emperor bigger than the others to distinguish him from the others. His facial features are prominent. On the other faces there are figures related to the hippodrome and races. Then we examined the snake stone behind the obelisk. This stone from Ancient Greece was made in 479 BC. It depicts 3 snakes wrapped around each other and 3 spiral structures. However, the heads of the snakes were broken or lost. Only the head of the snake is on display in the museum. The snake stone sculpture is made of bronze, but its color has changed over the years. Now its color is between blue and green. They believed that this structure protected the city from evil. Later, the knitted obelisk on the back side of the Serpent hill. This building is located at the end of the square. It belongs to the Byzantine period. It is thought to have been built between 379-395 AD. This obelisk is 32 meters tall and was previously covered with bronze plates and had a sphere on top. However, these have not survived to the present day. It was later covered with marble during the Ottoman Empire. It was used differently in each period, for example, in car races, competitors circled around these stones. In the Ottoman Empire, the janissaries used them for training. These three stones have historically seen many empires and kingdoms. And some emperors would erect a stone or a statue to show how powerful they were in their time. After the three stones, we went to the end of the square where the only remnant of the Hippodrome is the Marmara University rectorate building. Thanks to this part, we can fully understand the size of the hippodrome. Thanks to this section, we can understand where the horses turned. Important spectators sit on the marbles in the front of the hippodrome and the public sits in the back. And it is incredible that people at that time built such a big structure.

After the ruins of the Hippodrome, we went to visit the mosque in Küçük Ayasofya. It was built by Byzantium in 527-536. It has been damaged by earthquakes until today, so it has been repaired and tried to preserve its original state. It bears the traces of different civilizations. "Little Hagia Sophia" has some similarities with Hagia Sophia, so the Ottomans called it "Little Hagia Sophia". First built as a church, it was converted into a mosque by Bayezid II. The building is octagonal and has a dome on top of the building. There are marble columns inside the mosque. These tops have carvings at the top. And there are some signs such as Theodora's monogamy.

Finally, although I had visited these places before, I had never studied them in such detail. Thanks to my two professors, I learned interesting information about the hippodrome and Little Hagia Sophia.

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The Thinker. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Week 2

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Women, I. Willem de Kooning (1950-1952)

Week 1