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Hasan Kaptan is an interesting artist born in Ankara (1942?). His father was painter Arif Kaptan. He was recognized as a talented artist as a boy when he began producing modern art. He exhibited for the first time at the age of 7 years in his hometown. This exhibition toured the major Turish cities, including Istanbul. He exhibited at the Paris gallery FE Buffa (1950). The art critic Pierre Varenne assessing the work exhibited in Paris, "What we observe is in its ancient Anatolia, the beings that pass before his eyes ingenuous child rubbed, shaken by the motley crowds of Asia, obsequious merchants, beggars, emaciated, gaudy gossips, shepherds proud, Cutthroat girls ... All eyes haunt. He wants to understand and fix. No master has done better than him, take a look behind a soul." French television reported on the exhibit as did the press. Following the Paris exhibition, the gallery Saint-Etienne in New York exhibited his works. Life magazine, the most prestiogious American mass circulation magazine, devoted an entire page to Hasan. They had just reported on Mark Chagall. Further American exhibitions followed, including Washington and Chicago. Time magazine reported on Hasan on this occasion. "At this stage, Hasan happens to have removed a curtain and discovered the window of the human soul. He discovered the eyes!. And now, this great little man, who has always felt deeply for humanity, cannot leave these windows." A Turkish American publication reported, "Human beings, in Hasan’s recent works, are passing through a transition period smilar to that between the arts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: They are becoming more alive andtangible; they are coming down to earth; they are coming out from a world of imagination to the world of reality." 【Arşivi】 After his trip he returned to Turkey. A large traveling exhibition of one hundred of his works was put together and toured Anatolia (1954). Hasan obtained a grant from the Turkish government studies (1957). Hasan began studying and painting in Paris. The same year he participated at the Edinburgh Festival. One of these works was reproduced in full page color in Harper's Bazaar. He exhibited etchings as part of a group show in the gallery bookshop La Hune. Belgian, English, and Swiss bought his prints. Gradually Kaptan move away from modern abstract art to more realistic pictoral depictions. Kaptan settled in Normandy and has a special interest in in art therapy. It is notavle tht he did not stay in Turkey to puesue his art. As fr as we can tell, his works have commnded only modst prices and have motly sold on the Turkish art market. We have been able to find very little biographical information on him. After Turkey's Islamic turn, (2000s), we doubt if his work has benefitted.
Ecevit, Bülend. "Turkish painting: Hasan Kaptan," Turkish-American News s. 4 (February 1953).
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