NEWSPAPER IMAGE IN ART AS A MASS MEDIA

Abstract

Art is a notion that expresses the productions of people to express their creativity with aesthetic
elements. Visual arts which have a simultaneous past with the history of humanity have influenced
and directed people and societies throughout history without losing their effectiveness. Newspaper
which is a mass media has a quality that meets the common ground with art in terms of influencing
people and societies. The primary purpose of the newspaper is to inform and its history dates back
to 59 BC, Ancient Rome. Although the newspaper is a low-cost communication media and is
printed to announce the actual to the masses; over time, it came under the control of people or
institutions, ideologies and powers in order to maintain its existence. The same situation is also
viable for art works.Art has continued to exist in the control and support of an elite class or governments throughout
history. This study has a different perspective that brings together art and newspaper, and focuses
on newspapers as an image in art works in history. The aim of the study is to reveal for what
purpose of the newspaper images includes in paintings. The newspaper images in the paintings will
be handled with the descriptive analysis method and evaluated within the context of the paintings.
The selected ten paintings which contain newspaper images as a visual element constitute the scope
of the study. The use of newspaper image in art works indicates that they attend the social,
economic and cultural dynamics of the period they belong to. The results of the study reveal that art
as a discipline raises communication and communication mutually raises art.