Aslan Başpınar
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Aslan Başpınar (born 1966) is a sculptor working in Ankara, Turkey. He is known for his figurative sculptures and compositions, especially for monuments of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in various places of Turkey.[1]
Biography[edit]
Başpınar was born in 1966 and lived in a small village in Yozgat until he started studying sculpture at Gazi University in Ankara.[1] His practice on sculpture started at a very early age, his works made out of clay and mud as a child attracted attention of engineers and professors from General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (Turkey) during a small visit in the village and this mediated his move to Ankara in 1982 to study sculpture in Gazi University and his career as a sculptor started. [2]
In 1987 he started working in workshops of various sculptors until he opened his own workshop in 2000 in Ostim, Ankara. [1]
Works[edit]
Throughout his career, he is specialized in monument sculpting, one of his late works Kızılcagün Monument, a composition narrating Atatürk's arrival in Ankara during Turkish War of Independence, stands in the middle of Ankara since 2020. [3][4][5][6][7] Another major work consists of two reliefs narrating the establishment of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and Atatürk's arrival in Samsun in 19 Mayıs 1919, these reliefs are part of many works in Atatürk ve Kurtuluş Savaşı Müzesi in Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. [8] As well as his figurative works, he also contributes modern works of art with a choice of different materials from marble and bronze to wood. [1] Some of his other notable works are:
- Statue of Uzun Mehmet in Ereğli, Zonguldak (2001)[9]
- A sculpture of his father Veli Başpınar (2003)[10][11]
- Statue of Nida Tüfekçi in Yozgat (2006) [2]
- Statue of Nazım Hikmet in Hacıbektaş[12]
- Compositions in Malıköy Train Station in Polatlı, Ankara (2009)[13]
- Compositions in front of Constitutional Court of Turkey in Ankara (2009)[14]
- Statue of Uğur Mumcu in Ankara (2018)[15]
- Statue of Aşık Mahsuni Şerif in Yenimahalle, Ankara (2020)
- Compositions in Murat Karayalçın Kent Meydanı, Ankara (2021)[16]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Website of Aslan Başpınar". www.aslanbaspinar.com. Retrieved 2022-09-15. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Torunları bayramda heykelinin elini öpüyor". Milliyet (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ↑ "Ankara Kent Konseyi | 27 Aralık 1919 "Kızılca Gün Anıtı" açıldı". ankarakentkonseyi.org.tr. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ↑ "Renkli kol saati heykeli gitti, Kızılca Gün Anıtı geldi". birgun.net (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-09-15.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "Melih Gökçek'in kol saati gitti, "Kızılca Gün Anıtı geldi". www.cumhuriyet.com.tr (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ↑ "GENELKURMAY KAVŞAĞINDA GÖKÇEK'İN "KOL SAATİ" HEYKELİ GİTTİ, "KIZILCA GÜN ANITI" AÇILDI". Gazete Grafiti (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ↑ GİRİTLİOĞLU, Doğahan. "Kızılca Gün Meydanı anlamlı olur". Hürriyet (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ↑ Ali Ergeç, Seyit (2018). Anıtkabir'in Şifresi. Parola Yayınları. p. 292. ISBN 9786059398800. Search this book on
- ↑ Oral, Bülent (May 2018). "Zonguldak ve Karabük Kentlerindeki Anıt Heykellerde İşçi Temsili". researchgate.net: 130.
- ↑ "Babalarının gölgesi üzerlerinden eksik olmuyor". Yeni Şafak. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ↑ "Baba Can'dır". İleri Gazetesi.
- ↑ "Nazım Hikmet'in Heykel Açılışı Töreni Yapıldı – Hacıbektaş Belediyesi". www.hacibektas.bel.tr. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ↑ Yalçın, Necati (13 September 2017). ""Bu memleket kolay kazanılmadı" Turu". Hürriyet Ankara.
- ↑ "1922 tarihli bir puldan esinlendim". Milliyet (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ↑ "Çankaya'da Uğur Mumcu Parkı ve Anıtı açıldı". www.cumhuriyet.com.tr (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ↑ "Karayalçın Kent Meydanı açılıyor". Ufuk Gazetesi (in Türkçe). 2021-06-10. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
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