The Investigation of the Amulet in Fikret Otyam Pictures

Abstract

Painter, photographer and journalist Fikret Otyam has a special place in Anatolian Anatolian culture symbols and motifs in his paintings. The influence of the geography and society that an artist has grown up and grew up is great. Especially in childhood, beautiful remembrances and resting tales turn into creative imagery and illustrations in the next years. The aim of this work is to examine the figures and symbols that reflect the Anatolian culinary artifacts found in the painter Fikret Otyam's paintings and try to solve the meanings and deep meanings of the concepts and values they contain with a formal style. Some examples of figures and symbols belonging to Anatolian cultures in Fikret Oyam 's paintings will be analyzed with the diagram of opposite meanings from the methods of analysis of the semiotics, the diagram of semiotic and semantics.