(April 26, 1798 - August 13, 1863) He was one of France's most important Romantic painters. The painter's expression, powerful brushstrokes, and his work on the optical effects of colors influenced Impressionists, and his passion for the exotic influenced Symbolists. 'Odalik' has become an icon in painting and photography.
Published in Chapter:
Post-Orientalist Comments by Contemporary Women Photographers
Işık Sezer (Fine Arts Faculty, Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch023
Abstract
Today, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, etc. women photographers have made the orientalist visual expression form the focal point of their art: the orientalist painting tradition as a result of the painter Delacroix's trip to Morocco in 1832, the imagination world and the painting tradition shaped by the economy-politics of the period, from the male-dominated point of view, the harem, the chamber, etc. It is based on fantasies based on the female body in oriental spaces. Although this painting movement maintained its effectiveness between 1832-1914, it is taken as a reference by photographers in today's postmodern art environment. In today's photography art, Shirin Neshat, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Majida Khattari, Meriem Bouderbala, who have Eastern and Western cultures and mostly live in Western countries, visualize the position of women in their countries with an interdisciplinary interpretation in their photographic visions that they shape with a post-orientalist attitude.