Reading the Painting, Listening to the Landscape Through Creative Awareness

Every painting has a story. Paintings bring together the artist’s inner world, emotions, historical events, or ideas about a subject through layers of meaning. In this workshop, participants gain visual literacy skills—including the ability to approach works from different perspectives, practice empathy and connection, appreciate people’s creativity and potential, and experience the moment—while exploring the difference between merely looking and truly seeing through Halil Paşa’s various paintings.

Instructor: Umut Nur Sungur
Capacity: 15 people
Duration: 90 minutes

About Umur Nur Sungur
Umut Sungur is continuing her journey in art education in the Master’s Program in Fine Arts and Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Yeditepe University. In December 2019, her work was selected for exhibition at the 9th “All Woman” online art competition, where she was awarded a “special recognition” prize. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and has held two solo exhibitions. She gives talks and workshops on the role and place of art in our lives on both national and international platforms, and writes columns on art in various media. In 2021, she opened the “Umutlu Şeyler Culture and Art Corner” in Istanbul and continues her work there.

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