Abstract
ARTIST MEMORY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES IN THE PAINTING
Lots of artists in the history of painting art mentioned their past experiences and memories related to these experiences within their artwork. These works which include certain sections related to their past lifetime turned into autobiographical expressions in the works of other artists. This trend which can be significantly observed in the works of Arshile Gorky, Frida Kahlo and Paula Rego gained clarity with the help of works which include their childhood. The research within this framework aims to analyse these three artists’ reasons of leaning to their own childhood and the ways of reflection to their works. These artists, who based on a similar subject and made a different aesthetic conclusion, mainly interpreted their haunting childhood memories by depending on their own methods, aims and tones. These works based upon the effects of childhood experiences on their future life. These effects based upon different contextual bases defined each three artists’ subject approach that they were dealing on their works while forming the way of leading to the past.
Keywords
Art, painting, memory, autobiography.
