PARTICIPATIONS TO INTERNATIONAL PRINTMAKING COMPETITIONS FROM TURKEY

Among the exhibitions contain competition ones in these art activities are undoubtedly one of the simplest and most practical solutions to educate people's visual worlds because they can reach massive masses. These applications; As a practice of art, has been very influential in the advancement of individuals and societies, in their artistic and cultural development. Printmaking tradition, which has been going on for centuries, has undertaken a different mission today because it has lost its old communication tool feature. This tradition has always been a field of need, even for different purposes and has continued as an art of Printmaking that maintains its identity until today with the policy of "upper culture" for the benefit of the public. It is seen that some of our artists have been involved in international printmaking activities in our country in the past. It is expected that today's academicians, artists and art education students, who will become masters of the future, will participate more in these activities. It ups to art activities like this to turn concepts mature from immature some concepts that particularly young people who take the first acquisitions of arts education at schools of formal education, have because they can find concrete provisions for these concepts. Within the scope of this research, it’s tried to determinate of the participation rate from Turkey to the printing picture competitions which are made abroad soon by the reach their participants' information and evaluation of prize and exhibition situations.