"The miniature painter of today observes, thinks and depicts in exactly the same way as his 16th century counterpart, but the manner of presentation, the lines and the colours vary in accordance with the individualstyle of the miniature painter himself, and we can see just as important differences between the various artists working today as between the great miniature painters of the past".
Contemporary miniature art sees an artist create their own work entirely by themselves.
They even make their own paper and prepare their own colors and gold leaf,[2] this adds another degree of freedom.
However this changed in the 1950s when there was movement in the revival of the classical Turkish arts of old with an emerging interest.
These are that the painting is not bound by criteria such as three dimensionality, perspective, shadows and light.