Frank Auerbach ve Leon Kossoff’un Resimlerinde Temsil-Anlam İlişkisi: Figüratif Resimde İmpastonun Anlatı Üzerindeki Gücü.

This study examines the paintings of Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, two of the leading painters of British figurative painting, in terms of the relationship between representation and meaning. This qualitative research relies on data obtained from published written sources about Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, as well as an integrated review and analysis of artworks representing these artists’ artistic visions. Drawing on the discourses of the sociologist Stuart Hall regarding the relationship between representation and meaning, the study evaluates how the artworks' style, technique, and thematic characteristics affect the formation of meaning for the receiver. In the analyses on the relationship between representation and meaning carried out on the artists' works, readings were encountered that both artists' understanding of art showed similar characteristics. It has been observed that both artists' paintings, marked by an intense impasto technique, exhibit features bordering on abstraction, which blurs the identity characteristics of the depicted figures. This technique, along with ambiguous identity portrayals, creates sensory messages of pessimism, melancholy, and psychological depth for the viewer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]