Neşe Aybey (néeDuyar; 2 March 1930 – 4 January 2015), also written Neş'e Aybey, was a Turkish painter,
miniaturist and academic in the field of miniature art, one of the Traditional Turkish Arts and part of the
Ottoman Book Arts. She was the older sister of sculptor
Gürdal Duyar.
Biography
Neşe Aybey was born as Neşe Duyar on 2 March 1930 as the second child of Fikri Duyar and Nezahat Duyar (née Erişkin). She was the older sister of sculptor
Gürdal Duyar (1935–2004) and younger sister of Erdal Duyar (1927–1975).[1] She was married to
Hasan Rauf Aybey (1921–2005), an
internist-medical doctor and poet.[2][1][3]
She graduated from the
Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul, where she was a student of
Hüseyin Tahirzade Behzat in the 1940s, majoring dually in
miniature and
tezhip.[4] She became a professional painter, miniaturist, and also authored Turkish Miniature art in the 20th Century (1979).[5][6] Upon the establishment of the Chair of Traditional Turkish Crafts in 1976 at the Academy of Fine Arts and the re-establishment of the Traditional Turkish Arts department, which had been shut down in the political climate of the
1960 coup, she became a teacher of miniature at the academy.[7][1] She has also taught miniature at other places such as the Basın Müzesi[8] as well as at special courses at Atelye Gamsız for those preparing to enter the Mimar Sinan University entrance examinations, along with her brother
Gürdal who specialised in sculpture and also
Leylâ Gamsız,
Mahmut Cuda,
Avni Arbaş,
Nevin Çokay,
Güler Diler,
Mesut Üldaş and
Edis Tezel.[9][10][11]
One of her original exhibitions[note 1] of paintings and miniatures was in 1999. Among this exhibitions miniatures and paintings was Şeküre ve Kara (1999) which was inspired by
Orhan Pamuks book titled My Name Is Red. The exhibition was at Galeri 3K, alongside a painting exhibition by
Nazan Akpınar,[12][13] who was her friend.[14] Among her paintings that took part in the exhibition I-You-They: A Century of Artist Women (2021–2022) at
Meşher, was her painting Manolyalı Kız, which was used on the banner of the exhibition.[15][16][17] It is made from
Gouache on paper.[18] Also a 1957 pencil drawing on tracing paper was in the exhibit.[19] In her artwork she used traditional motifs,[20] patterns and lines.[21] She has also sketched carpet motifs.[19]
^Original Exhibition in this context means an exhibition of works that are originally imagined by her as opposed to works that are based on existing historical
Ottoman,
Persian,
Indian or other miniatures which are common for miniature artists and academics studying miniature to re-make.
"Atölye Gamsız'dan Çağrı" [An Invitation from Atelier Gamsız] (PDF). [Magazine Title Unknown] (in Turkish). Atelye Gamsız. p. 58. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
Galeri 3K (24 December 1999). Neşe Aybey: Özgün Minyatür ve Resim Sergisi (Invitation Card).{{
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Moghaddami, Sevda Abolhassan; Mohammadzadeh, Mehdi (May 2021).
"سیر احیا و تحول هنر نگارگری معاصر ترکیه" [The Course of Resuscitation and Evolution of Contemporary Turkish Miniature]. Bagh-e Nazar (in Persian). 18 (95). Nazar Research Center: 37–52.
doi:
10.22034/BAGH.2020.222054.4483. Retrieved 26 September 2022.