Bahar Artan Oskay

Born,1984 / Istanbul, Turkey
Oskay in her early periods interpreted the works of great masters of modern art while she was examining the popular culture .In the wide range of the artists such as Mondrian , Matisse and Picasso,she has interpreted and appropriated the works of them and brought forward popular art with her original point of view. Along with interpretation of popular works of art,in her progressive period ,she produced a series of works on the problematic how popular images create awareness in current life and how these are transformed into art works in one to one interaction .
In the following periods;
Artist who effected Picasso's saying " Every act of creation is first act of destruction" , now also under the influence of his own art and under the inevitable nature of artistic change. She has entered into the process of cutting , destroying and reconstructing of her old paintings with a method in which the results can not be foreseen. This change in her paintings is based on the uncontrolled union of controlled creation .
Artist started to cut off her works of figurative abstraction series and divide them into squares in order to create new compositions .According to Oskay; ‘It is necessary to destroy to crea...

2002-2006 Yeditepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts Plastic Arts ( Undergraduate)
2008-2011 Yeditepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts Plastic Arts (Graduate, Master Degree)
2012- 2017 Yıldız Technical University, Department of Art&Design ( Proficiency in Art, PH Degree)
2017- Yeditepe University Faculty of Fine Arts Plastic Arts- Vice-Chair