In our 450th art meeting, we visit the artist Neşe Erdok. Born in 1940, Erdok graduated from the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in 1963. She was sent to France by the Ministry of National Education to train faculty members for the State Academy of Fine Arts. He studied painting at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and became a professor in 1981.
Erdok, who can be considered the master of figurative painting, used striking expressions while transferring human beings to canvas. It is observed that the mood of the figures, which he handled sometimes in normal human size and sometimes with deformation, is indicated and there is a close connection between the figure and the space relationship. He emphasised the pattern in his works but also adhered to the rules such as light-shadow, and form-stain. In these works with social content, children, the sick, the crippled and the elderly are frequently depicted. His works are in various museums and collections in Turkey and abroad, including Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul State Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul Modern, and Norton Simon Museum.