Turkey's new curriculum to include singers, modern era artists

Turkey's Ministry of Education is planning to include singers and modern era artists in several areas such as music, painting and marbling art in its new draft curriculum. The curriculum aims to introduce the students to the art pieces of renowned Turkish artists.

In the visual arts classes, the students will be seeing art pieces by Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Burhan Doğançay, Turan Erol and İbrahim Çallı. As a part of the music classes, the students will listen to songs from the genres such as pop, canto, Anatolian rock and arabesque. 

As a part of the "Visual Arts Culture" class that will be given to tenth graders, the students will be familiar with the significant representatives of the traditional Turkish art. Water marbling artist Mustafa Esat Düzgünman, water marbling and calligraphy artist Necmettin Okyay, illumination artist Rikkat Kunt, miniature artists Matrakçı Nasuh, Nakkaş Osman, Levni and Süheyl Ünver, tile artists Hafız Mehmet Efendi and Faik Kırımlı's works of art will be introduced to the students. 

The works of arts by the artists who marked an era will be taught in the class, which will include contemporary Turkish painting. In addition to Mihri Müşfik, who is known as the first female artist to start contemporary paintings in Turkey, the curriculum will include Hale Asaf, Turgut Zaim, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Zeki Faik İzer, Ferruh Başağa, Burhan Doğançay, Neşe Erdok, Turan Erol and Süleyman Saim Tekcan's artistic styles. 

The works of the painters Feyhaman Duran, İbrahim Çallı, Namık İsmail, Nazmi Ziya Güran and Refik Epikman will also be featured in the classes. 

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