"Who is called the artist?", "What does the artist get inspired by?" Although there is no clear definition, such questions can be defined as the person who expresses his feelings about the events in general with various techniques and methods. The artist is outside the general perspective and does not look at the events with an ordinary eye, all the situations around him turn into images that shape the world of mind. The situations that nourish the artist's mind world are not only beautiful, but tragedies, destructions and ugliness can be the source of inspiration. The image of the illness, which is among the tragedies of the artist's inspiration, is an image that has many roots in the history of art.
Societies encountered illnesses and deaths that they caught unprepared for them in different periods of their history. Such unexpected encounters have left permanent marks in the memories of the societies and are engraved in the memories of the society. A situation that has such an impact on societies has also affected the artistic creation process of mankind, and its effects on the artistic process of the artist as well as the artistic image have been observed. Especially the outbreaks that caused great destructions ensured the desperation and fear of death in the minds of the societies. The artist, who was affected by the state of the society in which she lived, was encountered as a subject in her works from the earliest times until today. The fact that the artists, who included the feelings of illness and illness in their paintings, dealt with the subject in different ways, led to the production of different techniques in different periods of art history. Many diseases, including plague and major destructions affecting Europe, plague, which is the most subject in the history of art, have been transferred to the paintings by artists in different forms and techniques. Analyzing the ways of dealing with the theme of the disease in the descriptions of the artists aims to explain the perspective of the artist of the period in every image of the diseases in the image world.
Keywords: epidemic disease, art, painting
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