Orhan Umut
The Blue Boat
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60 × 80 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
Beneath a sky of orange and red at sunset, three women and a child stand before a blue boat drawn up on the shore. At the left, a woman in a white jumper and red skirt beside a child in blue; at the centre, a figure in a red cardigan looks straight out at the viewer; at the right, a woman stands by a wooden plank, turned towards her. In the foreground a pinkish-red dog stands while a black-and-white one lies on the ground; behind them rise leafless trees and a violet-grey silhouette of hills. With their wide eyes and long faces, the figures make a quiet, melancholy shoreline scene. The artist's signature appears at the lower right.
About the Artist
Orhan Umut (b. 1972, Diyarbakır) entered the Painting Department of the Buca Faculty of Education at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir through the aptitude examination in 1993 and graduated in 1997 from the Hasan Rastgeldi studio. The awards include an Achievement Prize at the 65th State Painting and Sculpture Competition (2004), the Jury Special Prize at the 68th (2007) and an Achievement Prize at the Yunus Emre Painting Competition (2010). Since 1997 Umut has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in İzmir, Istanbul, Ankara and Diyarbakır, and continues in figurative painting — without giving up colour, line, speck and stain — while teaching art in Diyarbakır.
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