USING OF SYMBOLIC ILLUSTRATIONS AS DECORATIVE ELEMENT IN CERAMIC SURFACES Supervisor: Professor, Kaan CANDURAN Autor: Denis Dilara KESİMLİ AYTEPE ABSTRACT The expression language of art, which is adorned with symbols, has been used to reflect the subjective data that is wanted to be transferred through many methods from past to present. With the maturation process of capital societies, many of the elements that we have been exposed to in many ways in everyday life, in printed material, in the digital world and in social networks are just symbols. In this sense, especially the symbols used in the artistic field are the starting point of this research. Animal figures, which are preferred in artistic works, can be completed by transform...