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NAzIM MEHMET

Lives and works in kayseri, Turkey

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Nazım Mehmet who has an academic art education always mentions his
admiration to Renaissance Art. However, it was Paul Eluard’s poems he was
fascinated by and became the main source for his paintings. Paul Eluard
was one of the announcers of Surrealist manifest. Being affected by the
surrealist artists such as De Chrico, Dali and Matta, Mehmet adopts the

 tHe BLaNK, OIL ON CANvAS 27,5x20 IN. / 70x50 CM.
 UNtItLeD, OIL ON CANvAS 31,5x23,5 IN. / 80x60 CM.
 tHe LOVe, OIL ON CANvAS 35,5x40 IN. /90x100 CM. 

surrealist principle of scrutinizing and leaving free the creative subconscious.
Intensifying his work around this principle, artist takes the subconscious
dream images and makes them to exist isochronally as they are in a dream
letting them to spread on the surface without any judgement.
Mehmet has a fantastic style which he presents unrelated objects in an
aura. It is not predictable to see impossible objects in his paintings as
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