Bazı Hayvan Figürlerinin Türk Sanatlarına Yansımaları

Abstract

The depiction of animal figures, whether made for art or not, has a history dating back tens of thousands of years. When these depictions are traced, sometimes the same styles of descriptions are made in wide geographies, and sometimes there are minor differences in styles due to the change of belief systems. In this study, which will focus on the common and divergent points in the depictions, it is also aimed to make sense of the figures with symbolism. With the change of belief systems, geographies and time, there are no significant differences in the styles and meanings of these animal figures. The productions representing the Scythian, Hun and Uyghur art represent the pre-Islamic Turkish art of this research, while the examples of the productions from the Seljuks, Artuqids, Aydınoğulları Principality, Ottoman and Republican periods represent the Islamic period of Turkish art. Animal figures of pre-Islamic Turkish art and Islamic period Turkish art developed within a certain system, and mostly the same animals were given the same meanings. It is interesting to note how a person who depicts an animal on a cave wall, a metal object, an architectural structure, or embroiders it on a textile chooses an animal. It is a known situation that there was a very strong relationship between man and nature in the periods when the monotheistic religions had not yet emerged, and that at the points where the human mind and power were insufficient, he ascribed meanings to some living things and produced solutions in this way for the cases for which he could not find an answer.