Faruk Cimok
İstiklal II
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40 × 50 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
A nostalgic red tram moving along İstiklal Avenue and the long reflections upon the wet pavement form the backbone of the scene. In the foreground a woman in a violet scarf and a man in a brown suit walk in opposite directions while pigeons wait on the ground; beyond them appear illuminated signs and a monumental stone gateway. The artist's signature appears at the lower right; the work is presented in its cream-linen frame with a slender gold inner fillet.
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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