Osmanlı Tasvir Sanatları - Çarşı Ressamları - Metin AND

When Metin And first used the term "Bazaar Painters" in an article he published in 1985, he not only added a new concept to our art history terminology but also demonstrated, with examples, the world of these artists, how they worked, what they depicted, where these works were located, and how they could be utilized in art and cultural history research. These articles, which continued until 2007, should be understood as an extension of an effort to introduce, popularize, and inform, despite their occasionally repetitive content. Bazaar Painters and their works were initially mentioned alongside miniatures, and F. Taeschner, who published the first examples, also referred to these paintings as miniatures, feeling no need to give them a separate name. Metin And was the first to attempt to distinguish them from their counterparts and introduce them as a distinct branch of the representational arts, going to great lengths to obtain images of the "Bazaar Painting Albums" scattered across the world and using them in his articles and books. Bazaar Painters, the second volume of Ottoman Representational Arts, consists of twelve articles published between 1985 and 2007, a long introduction by Tülün Değirmenci, and a concise Album. The representations and writings that And passionately pursued throughout his life are merely the footsteps of his book that was either written but lost or could never be written...