A section of a long migrant caravan: in front, a standing figure with a white scarf wrapped about the face and, beside it, a woman sunk to the ground; behind them laden horses and carts on snowy ground. Güngör (2020) writes that the shock of migration can be read in the collapsed figure, and that patches of light and shadow set the figures firmly in their space.
Provenance
The artist's studio; with the artist's family since 2017.
Literature
Güngör, Tuğba (2020). Çağdaş Türk Resim Sanatında Göç Olgusu: Mehmet Başbuğ Özelinde Bakmak. MANAS Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi, 9(3), 1608–1626 (p. 1619, fig. 12). https://doi.org/10.33206/mjss.681050
Cite
Mehmet Başbuğ, Migration, 1984. Oil on canvas, 140 × 200 cm. Mehmet Başbuğ Archive MB-0276. https://mehmetbasbug.tr/en/works/mb-0276/
