A painter in Maxmur camp
A painter in Maxmur camp
We publish an edited version of DIHA news agency report on Maxmur Camp.
Painter Cengiz Kara, the teacher at the painting workshop at Maxmur Refugee Camp, tells that the painted pictures reflect the sensual world and women intrinsically have a stronger artistic propensity than men.
Cengiz Kara, whose interest in painting began as a child at Maxmur Refugee Camp, opened a painting workshop in 2004, during his high school education at the camp. Trainer Kara, who graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Selahattin University in Hewler in 2006, is now trying to inculcate the students into a love of painting in the workshop which he gave the name of HPG member Delila Meyaser who lost her life in 2007.
25 out of 35 students are girls
Trainer Kara, who gives painting lessons to 35 students at the workshop, says the followings; "20 of these students are still too young and other 15 are students from secondary and high schools. We have 25 girl and 10 boy students. A significant point that distinguishes girls from boys is that the women intrinsically have a stronger artistic propensity than men. Especially the art of painting is just for women who have more interest in art than men. Girls and boys display their distinctness from each other in their paintings. Moreover, drawing is a branch of art which enables the person reflect her/his sensual world."
'Drawings reflect the sensual world'
Remarking that the students of the painting workshop, who show great interest in painting, perform a quality working and a higher success than even the university students at painting departments of faculties, Kara says the followings; "My 17 year-old refugee life-style necessarily left some marks on my sensual world and on the art I perform. We have been a close follower of the struggle for freedom which also had impressions on our sensual world that can easily be seen when you look at my paintings. The paintings in this exhibition consists of the pictures of burnt down villages and children and women exiled from their homes and lands. On the other side, you can see the very valuable martyrs and symbols of the fight for freedom in the pictures I paint."
Translation: Berna Ozgencil
Painter Cengiz Kara, the teacher at the painting workshop at Maxmur Refugee Camp, tells that the painted pictures reflect the sensual world and women intrinsically have a stronger artistic propensity than men.
Cengiz Kara, whose interest in painting began as a child at Maxmur Refugee Camp, opened a painting workshop in 2004, during his high school education at the camp. Trainer Kara, who graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Selahattin University in Hewler in 2006, is now trying to inculcate the students into a love of painting in the workshop which he gave the name of HPG member Delila Meyaser who lost her life in 2007.
25 out of 35 students are girls
Trainer Kara, who gives painting lessons to 35 students at the workshop, says the followings; "20 of these students are still too young and other 15 are students from secondary and high schools. We have 25 girl and 10 boy students. A significant point that distinguishes girls from boys is that the women intrinsically have a stronger artistic propensity than men. Especially the art of painting is just for women who have more interest in art than men. Girls and boys display their distinctness from each other in their paintings. Moreover, drawing is a branch of art which enables the person reflect her/his sensual world."
'Drawings reflect the sensual world'
Remarking that the students of the painting workshop, who show great interest in painting, perform a quality working and a higher success than even the university students at painting departments of faculties, Kara says the followings; "My 17 year-old refugee life-style necessarily left some marks on my sensual world and on the art I perform. We have been a close follower of the struggle for freedom which also had impressions on our sensual world that can easily be seen when you look at my paintings. The paintings in this exhibition consists of the pictures of burnt down villages and children and women exiled from their homes and lands. On the other side, you can see the very valuable martyrs and symbols of the fight for freedom in the pictures I paint."
Translation: Berna Ozgencil
