AN ARTIST FROM KUTAHYA and HIS UNDERSTANDING OF ARTISTIC PAINTING

At our interview with Yakupoglu, we concentrated on his understanding of artistic painting. Writing down the impessions of the conversation led us to further associations about the concept of fine arts. The painter had returned to his home city upon completion of his art education at the Academy of Fine Arts. Probably because of this reason he eventually acquired a classical art appreciation entirely different from those of other educated painters, who are contantly in quest of new currents and tries. in complete harmony with his own culture, he chose to give expression to his own beloved local environment in his artistic occupations. Ironically, it is specifically this trait of his which renders him much more striking and unique among the artists.