Coplu

Art Brokerage: Coplu Turkish Artist: Coplu's journey as an artist began at a very early age when he was a child. His family was involved in the carpet business so they spent their days making dyes, coloring yarns, drawing figures and matching patterns. His mother carried him in her backpack while weaving and she would explain to him what the various patterns meant and the effects of color in carpets.nnHis family moved to Istanbul when he was six and he lived there for thirty years. The sixties and seventies were periods of optimism, socialism and humanism in Turkey but the 80's brought very difficult political and social events. In response to censorship and oppression of freedom of expression he began to draw cartoons. His passion for drawing grew as he was studying to become a mining engineer at Istanbul University. He realized that he could not keep his mind on his studies while it was completely occupied with social issues, because he witnessed great turmoil in his day to day life which he documented in his art and it was not long before his art became more important to him than his studies.He contributed cartoons to the Turkish Daily News for over five years. He established an Open Air Cartoon Exhibition Space and the Cartoon School of Antalya. Under the auspices of these institutions he taught many pupils the art of seeing the humorous side of life. He has been exploring forms of visual art and he developed his own style of painting. The subjects of his paintings are always human beings and the environment they are part of. His work mirrors human beings' feelings, beliefs, thoughts, fears and experiences. Listings wanted.