Bayram Gümüş
Spring Train
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60 × 80 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
Beneath a sky of violet and pink cloud, in a valley ringed by green hills, a deep blue steam locomotive curves towards us with its wagons behind. On either side of the track stand trees worked dot by dot, each in its own colour, clusters of blossom and rows of lilac, while cypresses and poplars rise on the slopes. Built with the naive idiom's love of detail, the scene gathers all the colours of spring at once. The artist's signature appears at the lower right.
About the Artist
Born in Konya in 1960, Bayram Gümüş moved with his family to Istanbul in 1967. A meeting with the painter Kasım Koçak in 1983 gave new direction to his practice; the following year he opened his own studio and began to earn his living as a painter. One of the leading representatives of Turkish naïve painting, he brings the joy of living and the delight of the everyday to canvas with a wholly distinctive sense of colour. He held his first solo exhibition in Ankara in 1985 and has since exhibited widely in Turkey and the United States.
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