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Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Tayyar Özkan was born in Turkey in 1962 and graduated from Ankara Gazi University’s Faculty of Fine Arts in 1983. He began publishing his early works between 1976 and 1989. In 1989, Özkan moved to the United States, where he embarked on a successful career in graphic and textile design, working with high-profile brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Polo Ralph Lauren, Christian Dior, Joe Boxer, Tiffany, and Mavi Jeans, among others, from 1989 to 2018.

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