Canan Korkmaz

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Chicago- The sculptures of Yücel Dönmez were realized with polyurethane rubber and metal screws and reveal a new concept of sculpture. The artist paints the polyurethane plate like a canvas first, and after painting, transforming the painting into his own organic form, revealing his sculpture.
Yucel Donmez created a new style of visual arts using his own technique in his paintings. Therefore, the work of Yücel Dönmez has been accepted as a new in the world of visual arts.
Yücel Dönmez's own technique and style were opened to the world in July 1987 at The Art Institute of Chicago with a small exhibition and 12-day performances and it was reported that a new technique was introduced to the world of visual arts with the publication of WGN television.
The first period of Yücel Dönmez's technique and style has been used by thousands of artists in the world today as streaming technique. Donmez, however, does not leave his work at a coincidence by using a special technique of fluxing, by providing a certain control over the work he has done. The pouring technique is made up of coarse specks that are usually found by chance.
For his own style, Yücel Dönmez makes abstract paintings by putting a contemporary synthesis with the accumulation of Turkish-Islamic traditional arts.
Alan Artner, an art critic for the Chicago Tribune, commented on Yucel Donmez, "an artist in art that we can identify with its versatility in its own generation." also known as the first artist who painted on the snow in the world Yücel Dönmez, Erzurum in 1969 Palandöken in the trial of his profits official project in 1975, the famous ski resort of Uludag in Turkey made great hotel facilities in sponsorship. After trying the snow picture which is 50 square meters in the province, Erzurum Palandöken, Uludağ, Chicago Grand Park and again Uludağ, Antalya Saklıkent ski resort, Antalya Akseki snow projects were realized. Yücel Dönmez also known as the Turkish American artist with his 11 rock sculptures in Kackar mountains in Turkey in 1974, Turkey's first known as Land Art artists.