2. Esref Armagan is a very unusual Turkish painter.
He was born in 1953 in Istanbul.
At 6 years old he began to draw with paper and pencil and
later he started painting with oil paints on poster paper.
3. Eşref is a blind painter, blind from birth.
He has never been able to see nor understand colors as
seeing people do but he is drawing picture colorful and
realistic.
4. Esref Armagan started using colors, perspective, shadow, light and
balance in his pictures, he attracted the attention of international arts
and scientists.
‘’He paints houses and mountains and lakes and faces and butterflies,
but he's never seen any of these things, paintings are disarmingly
realistic and his skills are formidable. I have tested blind people for
decades and I have never seen a performance like his. ‘’ says John
Kennedy being psychologist at the University of Toronto.
5. They want to know how a man without eyes, drawing
such an incredible pictures using scale and perspective
and then they take away him Florence to draw Filippo
Brunelleschi’s Octagonal Baptistery Building.
6. Although a lot of people who are seeing healthy , draw
it wrong but he drawn it flawless even If He is blind.
7. Then They sold his picture and picture’s income
donated for World Blind Union.
8. He said :
‘’ I want to be remembered as a person who is able to
see the world with their fingertips, I want to
remembered with my art. ‘’