BİR RESİM SERGİSİNDEKİ ZİYARETÇİLERİN KÜLTÜREL YAŞANTI OLARAK YAŞADIKLARI SÜRECE İLİŞKİN GÖRÜŞLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ (ADANA İLİ ÖRNEĞİ)

Nowadays, museum and gallery spaces are very important in terms of art education. The process which was experienced in this places by visitors as education process, is seen both formal and informal. The communication which is formed between the product and the visitors in the space, is also named as aesthetic experience. Forming a cultural live with the integration of the cognitive and sensetive perception, this process influence on the visitor. According to the view of the visitor, the analysis of this process which is conceptualized as a cultural life accounts for the basic problem of the study. This study aimed to analyse the opinion of the visitors’ about the process of understanding an artwork during the exhibition of Mustafa Okan, named “The Stories of Fire”, held on between November 16 and November 30, 2012. At the same time, this study aimed to analyse if the visitors’s opinions change or not according to their educational backgrounds. By using the qualitative method the data has been gathered with interview. After that, the obtained data will be analyzed in terms of content analysis. Throughout this study, we have interviewed with 13 visitors who were selected randomly among the participants who came the exhibitions. As a result of the research; visitors to the art exhibition, raises spiritual life which provides the opportunity to obtain their raises the opportunity of learning it was concluded that the obtained process is actively working. The result of this study demonstrated that the experience of visiting an art exhibition- questioning and understanding process of an artwork- rises a visitor’s spiritual and aesthetic experience and provides an active learning process.