Last modified: 2014-02-15
Abstract
While the painters of the earlier times of history of art favored the exactness and detail, the modern artist has been interested in the uncertainty and the whole picture. With the contemporary understanding, the reflection of the reality has been realized by evoking a sense of incompleteness. Using a narrow range of colors or monochromatism in paintings is uncertainty; it is silence. Thus, it has no common language. Originating from the Chinese painting traditions, the phenomenon of monochrome has been present since then. Especially, “transformation of concrete objects into abstract forms” is Malevich’s conception that was shaped after Suprematism. Later on, Klein and his blue, Lucio Fontana (4th dimension), Group Zero and Manzoni followed the same idea. With the names such as Barnett Newman, Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Minimalists, John Cage, Derek Jarman, the notion of vagueness in art has been in existence up to this day. Even today, while the notion of traditional painting is sinking into oblivion due to the mass media, the “silent” works produced by uncertainty; by a single and simple expression, are surviving. In this study, paintings that are created with the sensation of emptiness, infinity and monochromatism will be investigated.