Faruk Cimok
İstiklal Avenue
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60 × 80 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
At the centre of the composition, two nostalgic red trams advance side by side along İstiklal Avenue, aglow with the wet, reflecting surface left by the rain. In the foreground a woman in a white hat and a small girl in a white dress walk among the pigeons, a dog accompanying them at the right. Historic façades stretching the length of the avenue, trees and illuminated signs enclose the scene. The artist's signature appears at the lower right; the work is presented in its heavy carved frame of gold and burgundy.
About the Artist
Faruk Cimok (b. 1956, Reyhanlı, Hatay) graduated in 1979 from the Painting Department of the State Academy of Fine Arts (today Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University), opening his first solo exhibition in the same year. His paintings take as their subject the quarters of Istanbul — Beyoğlu, the Çiçek Pasajı, Taksim and Kumkapı — together with nostalgic trams and crowded street scenes glistening after the rain. For the pigeons that recur throughout his compositions, he is known in art circles as the "bird painter" (kuşçu ressam).
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