This study examines the definition and construction of the East through Western-centered discourses within the framework of Orientalism. While the language, history, sociology, and geography of the East are defined by the West, they are simultaneously othered.
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Within the repertoire of Orientalist paintings, harem life, which holds a magical mystery for Westerners, occupies an important place.\r\n\r\nThe formal origins of the exotic beauties in these paintings, set against an Eastern backdrop and wearing Eastern costumes,\r\n\r\nare based on the representations of Venus in the Western painting tradition.
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The West never looked at the East from the East itself. Ingres never went to a bathhouse, Gérôme never entered a harem, but both depicted those places in their paintings as if they were real for centuries. As is clearly seen in these two articles by Uzunoğlu and Kaya, Orientalism was not a matter of geography, but the imposition of a perspective.
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The spatial construction of miniature art offers a radical alternative to the linear-perspective tradition that is the cornerstone of Western painting and that confines the viewer to a single point of view. The two-dimensional, surface-based view of space preferred in this art is not a rejection of depth out of technical inability, but rather a conscious philosophical choice grounded in the understanding of being in Eastern and Islamic thought.
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