Esref armagan paintings of women

  • Woman Acrylic by Esref Armagan.
  • Recently there has been a bit of excitement around the painter Esref Armagan.
  • Esref Armagan.

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    Maria Teresa Aguirre

    Alma of the Yucca (Spirit of the Yucca)
    Oil, 24" x 30"
    Price: $750
     

    Maria Teresa Aguirre was born in Santa Rita, New Mexico. Her father was an artist, and when she was a young girl, she would often sit with him and, together, they would paint or draw. Recognizing her talent, her father urged her to continue painting as she grew up, but with marriage and birth of six children, other demands on her time took precedence. Finally, after her children had all left for college and she retired her job, she returned to her art. Since then, she has studied with artist Lopez Aleman, and later at the Carmel Cultural Center in California; Western University, Silver City, NM; and Centro Cultural Universitario De
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    Dear Artist,

    Recently there has been a bit of excitement around the painter Esref Armagan. The 51-year-old native of Istanbul, Turkey, has been blind from birth. Researchers at Boston University and the University of Toronto have been analyzing his work, trying to dig into and understand his thought processes. They bombard him with questions and subject him to brain scans while he paints. His work, which could be characterized as naïve or primitive, nevertheless shows some use of perspective and other sight skills. So you get an idea of what I’m talking about, see below for samples of his work.

    Butterflies
    Acrylic
    by Esref Armagan (b. 1953)

    For the blind, being able to draw objects such as cups, fish or hammers is one thing. For these tests Armagan used the “Sewell raised-line drawing kit.” This device leaves a Braille-like line that can be felt with the fingers.

    Being able to visualize and paint distant scenery in colour is something else. It’s safe to say that a tactile unde