Gültekin Bilge
@gultekinbilge active 8 months ago-
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Life Within Us (Bea… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Beautiful Seeds of Destruction series. It depicts the dangerous beauty of disease and its effects on the human host. This art work expresses the idea that disease has a life of its own and develops within people even as life goes on. It is a metaphor for the way that normal life continues…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge posted an update 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Just uploaded a number of paintings from 2010
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Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Mouth of the Cell (… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Inner Life series. These artworks depict different aspects of the internal human landscape. It was inspired by the discovery that cells, like humans, have mouths. Even at the cellular level there is a drive to find nourishment, just as humans are hungry to experience life. The artist…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Mozart – The Source… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Inner Life series which depicts different aspects of the internal human landscape. It contains an optimistic sense of how life can be full of joy and light. It was inspired by the music of Mozart. The artist employs the whirling technique to produce the outer image, contrasted against the…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: ABBA (inner Life Se… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Inner Life series. These artworks depict different aspects of the internal human landscape. This painting was inspired by the music and lives of the Swedish group ABBA. The artist employs the whirling technique to produce the image. He created this style of oil painting by adapting the…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Destruction of Nat… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Beautiful Seeds of Destruction series. It depicts the dangerous beauty of disease and its effect on the human host. This art work expresses concern about the disease of mind that leads mankind to use nature in a destructive way. The image of man is dominant and colourful; nature looks small…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Falling in Love (Be… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Beautiful Seeds of Destruction series. It depicts the dangerous beauty of disease and its effects on the human host. This art work comments on how falling in love can create symptoms almost like an illness. The artist employs the whirling technique to produce the image. contrasted against…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Thoughts in Mind (B… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Beautiful Seeds of Destruction series. It depicts the dangerous beauty of disease and its effects on the human host. The idea it expresses is that destructive thoughts can spread quickly like an infection in the minds of a community of people. The artist employs the whirling technique to…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Burning Inside (Bea… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Beautiful Seeds of Destruction series. It depicts the dangerous beauty of disease and its effects on the human host. This artwork expresses the artist’s thought that just as physical disease burns within people, diseased thinking burns deep within communities. The artist employs the…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Waiting (Beautiful … 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Beautiful Seeds of Destruction series. It depicts the dangerous beauty of disease and its effects on the human host. It conveys the idea that when a person is diagnosed with a serious illness or disease the outcome cannot be predicted. The underlying metaphor likens this situation to that…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: All in the Same Boa… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Beautiful Seeds of Destruction series. It depicts the dangerous beauty of disease and its effects on the human host. This art work expresses the idea that disease spreads with equality; all humanity is at its mercy. Nobody can predict where it will strike. The underlying metaphor is that…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Catching the Light … 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Inner Life series, which depict different aspects of the internal human landscape. This art work conveys the sense that even in the midst of despair, there is light and hope that life can be better. The artist employs the whirling technique to produce the image. He created this style of oil…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Unknown Question (B… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Beautiful Seeds of Destruction series. It depicts the dangerous beauty of disease and its effects on the human host. This artwork poses the question about what goes on in the mind of a human who faces death as disease spreads in the body. Likewise what thoughts circulate in communities…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Flow of Life and De… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting is one of the Beautiful Seeds of Destruction series. It depicts the dangerous beauty of disease and its effects on the human host. Vibrant life continues to flow even as disease spreads and death approaches. Likewise normal life seems to carry on in communities even when they are on the brink of…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Beautiful Seeds of … 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This is the first painting in the Beautiful Seeds of Destruction series which was inspired by the artist’s response to the impact of serious illness on the lives of others. Research using electron microscopy has revealed that many diseases look beautiful in appearance. The art works contrast the stunning visual…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Little Red Riding H… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on Board 52 cm x 70 cm
This painting uses the story of the powerless young girl devoured by a wolf to comment on how those with power in this world repeatedly take advantage of those people who have the least power. The juxtaposed portraits convey the idea that it is not always possible to detect exactly who is wielding power and influence.…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Divided World (Firs… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on two pieces of treated wood covered in canvas 71 cm x 69 cm
This oil painting is one of the artist's first wood series onto treated cedar wood. These artworks are the result of the artist’s idea to break free from the convention of painting within a rectangular frame. He bought the trunk of a cedar tree and had it sliced, dried, planed…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Energy of Creation … 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on treated wood covered in canvas 65 cm x 68 cm
This oil painting is one of the artist's first wood series onto treated cedar wood. These artworks are the result of the artist’s idea to break free from the convention of painting within a rectangular frame. He bought the trunk of a cedar tree and had it sliced, dried, planed and prepared. He…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Eruption (First Woo… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on treated wood covered in canvas 63 cm x 68 cm
This oil painting is one of the artist's first wood series onto treated cedar wood. These artworks are the result of the artist’s idea to break free from the convention of painting within a rectangular frame. He bought the trunk of a cedar tree and had it sliced, dried, planed and prepared. He…[Read more] -
Gültekin Bilge uploaded a new picture: Narcissus (First Wo… 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oil on treated wood covered in canvas 66 cm x 66 cm
This oil painting is one of the artist's first wood series onto treated cedar wood. These artworks are the result of the artist’s idea to break free from the convention of painting within a rectangular frame. He bought the trunk of a cedar tree and had it sliced, dried, planed and prepared. He…[Read more] - Load More



