Arture 565, Thomas Bernard, 2002
Yüksel Arslan combined the word art with the ure suffix in French (like in peinture or écriture) to create the word arture and he created these artures by using mixtures he composed with plants, herbs, soil, egg white, tobacco extract, sugar, salt, soap shreds, blood, and urine. According to him, he is not a painter, but a tuis, borrowing the term from Brecht who invented the term to designate intellectuals. He painted the human and everything created by him/her, with an almost encyclopedic conception, “working as a painter, a thinker, and a poet-designer.”
