RESPECT STREET FOR FIKRET MUALLA

Fikret Mualla is a world-famous Turkish expressionist painter. Gümüş gave a lot to his Art in her thesis. Because she believes this artist is an invaluable expressionist who has existential and vital suffering for his Art. Despite the pain, we see the vibrant and cheerful colors of life in his paintings. Fikret Mualla writes the following lines to a friend in his biography: “I could not find a warm home in Istanbul or Paris." These lines inspired Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin to paint this picture. She made this painting out of respect for this great Artist. Maybe she could not give him a house, but she could give him an imaginary street where the entrance of an opera named Semiha Berksoy, whom he loved, was opened. In this painting, she depicts Fikret Mualla's loved ones, what happened in his life or what she saw, and her longing for his Art. As a young expressionist, it is an expression of her respect for the master Artist for his inspiration. Semiha Berksoy's opera on Fikret Mualla Street and the figures in front of this imaginary space. When Fikret Adil goes to France to visit him, Fikret Mualla experiences mental and economic problems. That's why the figure in front has a rosary and represents patience. Because Fikret Adil brings beans to Fikret Mualla with the means at hand, and Fikret Mualla says, "What should I do? I want to drink turtle soup." Fikret Mualla loves wine with baskets, newspapers, and red carnations, so the artist imagines that the figure that symbolizes Fikret Adil brings these to Fikret Mualla. Fikret Mualla cannot pay his bill at the famous Dumm Cafe and he is kicked from the cafe. He is forced to sell a picture Picasso gave him for a bottle of wine. We see the entrance of this cafe on the right in the picture. We often see balloons, monkeys, and families in Fikret Mualla's paintings ... All of them express his longing for his childhood and his family in Moda / Istanbul, especially his longing for his mother, whom he lost as a child from the Spanish flu. Fikret Mualla caught this flu while he was studying in his own boarding life and thus thought that he had infected his mother himself, and this is painful . In the background, a poster of his platonic love Semiha Berksoy hangs on the opera wall. Berksoy and Mualla were friends with the famous poet Nazım Hikmet. They met often in Tepeüstü / Taksim / Istanbul and had a deep Art conversation. Semiha is in love with Nazım and Fikret is in love with Semiha. The other poster is about her hating ignorance. He called them "Leblebici". On the left, a lady from Istanbul and her elderly assistant Semiha Berksoy came to see the opera and we see them at the start of the opera. Actually, there is no such place and she hopes this opera will come true in the future. Obviously, the cigarette tray is always full because she thinks Fikret Mualla always expects Semiha Berksoy to love him. Berksoy has always felt compassion for him. The young women in the middle are the lovers of Fikret Mualla and they have never experienced those love. Fikret Mualla's relationship with women was not very good. So she thought this should be fine on this imaginary street. He has had a painful life, but you cannot see this pain in his colorful and enthusiastic painting. The humorist woman on the right symbolizes Fikret Mualla's carefree side and flies the balloons for her soul. Like Gümüş Sungurtekin ... She leaves this painting to life for Fikret Mualla's colorful spirit.