Cartoon Contest Strumica-2010
“Carneval-Mild Erotic”
Frst Prize:
Rumen Dragostinov
Second Prize:
Mikhail Zlatkovski
Third Prize:
Spiro Djajkov
Special Prize:
Valeri Aleksandrov
Frst Prize:
Rumen Dragostinov
“ÖMER ULUC” PORTRAIT
ERDOGAN KARAYEL
TURKISH PAINTER ÖMER ULUC PASSED AWAY
IN ISTANBUL ON THURSDAY…
Uluc was born in Istanbul in 1931.
He studied high school at the Robert College and
made his undergraduate degree in engineering
at the Istanbul University between 1949 and 1953.
Meanwhile, he started to work on painting at the Nuri Iyem workshop.
He studied engineering and later painting in Texas,
Boston and New York during 1950s, and held his first personal
exhibition in Boston in 1955.
He lived in London and Paris between 1965-1966 and
moved to the United States, Mexico and Nigeria.
He installed himself to Paris in 1983.
Many exhibitions in various cities, particularly in Paris,
Berlin and Istanbul, participation in a number of biennials and
numerous awards are among his artistic achievements.
Inspired by the traditional Turkish calligraphy,
Uluc created a unique contemporary style by means of abstracting figures and forms.
His work offers up a defiant sense of fantasy as it navigates the space
between abstraction and representation and often relies on rope imagery,
calling to mind a wealth of conceptual associations.
He used diverse materials not bounding his work with canvas painting.
79-year-old Uluc, who was also the spouse of Turkish writer and
columnist Vivet Kanetti, had been treated against lung
cancer for the last two years.
Dear Cartoonist…
1-How is the theme of the “woman” treated in your country’s cartoon?
2-How many woman cartoonists are there in your country
and what is its reason?
(please, short answers and examples.. thanks in advance..)
Your Answers:
donquichotte@donquichotte.org
“KARAYEL&LEITE” PORTRAITS
MOHAMED ALAFIA
