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In 1937, the German sculptor Rudolf Belling was appointed Chairman of the Department of Sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts. Belling, serving as an instructor at the Academy until 1954, trained many students besides sculpturing his own works. The İnönü monuments in the İstanbul Taşlık Park and the garden of Faculty of Agriculture in Ankara were done by Belling. |
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The sculptors trained by belling work mostly in figurative expressionism, and did experimental work in figurative-abstract and non-figurative approaches while artists such as Hadi Bara, İlhan Koman, Mehmet Sadi Çalık and Turgut Pura gave priority to abstractionist applications in their work. |
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In the 1950s, Hadi Bara and Zühtü Müridoğlu proved to be influential in the Academy’s Department of Sculpture. Abstractionist works besides the use of various tools and techniques are peculiar to this period. Sculptors such as Ali Teoman Germaner, Tamer Başoğlu, Gürdal Duyar, Namık Denizhan, Metin Deniz, Meriç Hızal, and Rahmi Aksungur were among the instructors of the school in that period. |
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Kuzgun Acar, who won the first prize at the Paris Youth Biennial in 1961, produced the most interesting examples in the abstract genre. The “Kuşlar” (Birds) relief in the İstanbul Textiles Bazaar was designed by Kuzgun Acar. Mehmet Aksoy, who attempted to bring new dimensions to figurative sculpture besides Ferit Özşen, Saim Bugay, Meriç Hızal, Remzi Savaş, Eyüp Öz, Yunus Tonkuş, Yavuz Görey, Zerrin Bölükbaşı, Hüseyin Gezer and Haluk Tezonar are some of the artists who headed towards abstractionism with materials like metals, stone and wood, achieved good places in international exhibitions and promoted Turkish sculpture abroad. |
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Hasan Fuat Sarı received the award of the Art Association in the field of sculpture in 2005-2006.
Award-winning works and those found worthy of exhibit in the Sculpture Contest of the 68th State Painting and Sculpture Exhibit, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism every year since 1939 to display the latest works of artists, will be shown at the Ankara State painting and Sculpture Museum in 2007.
A sculpture of Atatürk is being made in Ulanbator, Mongolia in coordination with the Directorate General of Fine Art.
 Ceramic Art: In the first years of the Republic, ceramicists
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were also sent abroad besides artists specializing in other branches of art. İsmail Hakkı Oygar, Hakkı İzer and Vedat Ar, who were among the first ceramicists to be trained abroad, took up ceramics in a different manner than the traditional concept, which was about decoration and ornamentation, and headed towards original work when they returned home. The contemporary approach brought by İsmail Hakkı Oygar to the art of ceramics registered significant development in the works of his followers. A ceramics atelier was established at the State Academy of Fine Arts in 1929 with the contributions of artists, and |
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