Yedi

Abstract

Hale Asaf (1905-1938) and Mihri Rasim (Müşfik) (1886-1954) are pioneer women who describe themselves as artists during the transition period from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Türkiye. As they were members of an educated group close to the palace, they were brought up taking painting and music lessons, and were brought up in an environment where many languages were spoken. Mihri Rasim (Müşfik) is an iconic figure as an artist and educator. Mihri, who trained herself as a portrait painter, existed as an artist in Italy, France and America, painted portraits of famous people such as Bernard Shaw, Thomas Edison, Franklin Roosevelt, pioneered the establishment of İnas Sanayi Nefise school, worked as a headmistress for a while and studied art in the Western sense. She became the spokesperson of the strong women's movement that emerged in the Constitutional Era and who wanted freedom. Her niece Hale Asaf is among the generation of artists who were sent to Europe with the goal of westernization in the Republican Period. She met the art community early in Paris and Rome and became one of the founders of the Independent Painters and Sculptors Society. In Republican Türkiye, Asaf and Rasim are pioneer women who define themselves as painters. The aim of this study; It is to deal with the environment in which Rasim and Asaf formed their artistic identities, the characteristics of the period, and the struggle they started as artists. To attempt a feminist critical examination of their place in Turkish art history. In order to examine Asaf and Rasim, the artists of the Republican period, a literature research was conducted, researches, theses, and articles written about them were examined.