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But i'm sensing it's not one that you buy. chuckles no, i don't buy that. but i buy this. he wasn't a typical orientalist. i mean, orientalism liked idle figures doing nothing. but he painted people reading or making music. what's really attractive is this idea that here is someone from turkey who's engaging with this quite problematic tradition of orientalism and somehow, what? he's subtly transforming it, he's — he's reclaiming it? yes, we can say that. he was painting the orient within the orient. whether you think that hamdi in the tortoise trainer was not so covertly criticising ottoman...

That this was almost like a very high, classy advertisement for what he could do. this is an image which is projecting status, fashionability — the elite taste of the time. i mean, ok, cosplay may be not quite the art—historically appropriate term, but there's a sort of sense of dressing up that clearly, his clients, they wanted that. yeah, exactly. the beginnings of all of that fantastical side, if you like, of orientalism. i feel there's glimmerings of that here. so fundamentally, orientalism is about the west's imagined vision of the east, but the pera is also home to work by a fascinat...

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