He was born in 1904 in Fethiye, Antalya. He completed his secondary education at Darüşşafaka in Istanbul. He entered the Sanayi-i Nefise School in 1918 and studied painting at the workshops of Hikmet Onat and İbrahim Çallı. He continued his Hans Hoffman workshop with Ali Çelebi and Zeki Kocamemi in Munich, where he went in 1923. He returned home in 1925. After returning home, he won a scholarship and went to Paris, where he became a student of Lucien Simon.

When he returned to Istanbul, he started his career as an assistant teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, alongside Namık İsmail. With his writings, he made an effort to root the appreciation of art in society and defended the rights of artists. He joined the Independents Group. He left this post because he could not get along with the academia. She started working as an art teacher at Bursa Teachers' School for Girls. From there she went to Kırklareli. She returned to Istanbul in 1931 to do her military service. She served as a cartographer at the Faculty of Letters. Beginning in 1939, he made cover compositions for Yeni Adam magazine. She pioneered the establishment of the Turkish Painters and Sculptors Association in 1942. He was sent to Trabzon first, and then to Bitlis in 1943, in the program of the CHP's country tours. 1943' of the Turkish Painters and Sculptors Society The exhibition held in the academy halls in Istanbul attracted attention. In 1944, he received the second prize at the 6th DRHS. He founded the Turkish Painters Association in 1950. He organized group exhibitions of the association outside of Istanbul. In 1952, he published the Fine Arts magazine, which would run for eight issues. He published the booklets, The Guide to This (undated) and Let's Go for a Glass of Rain Water (1973), which contained his critical views and counter-arguments to the Academy group. He organized freelance art courses in 1956. He retired from his post at the Faculty of Letters in 1969. He published the booklets, The Guide to This (undated) and Let's Go for a Glass of Rain Water (1973), which contained his critical views and counter-arguments to the Academy group. He organized freelance art courses in 1956. He retired from his post at the Faculty of Letters in 1969. He published the booklets, The Guide to This (undated) and Let's Go for a Glass of Rain Water (1973), which contained his critical views and counter-arguments to the Academy group. He organized freelance art courses in 1956. He retired from his post at the Faculty of Letters in 1969.

Mahmut Cuda appears as an artist who interprets constructivist art with his own unique identity within the Independent Group, which advocates cubist-constructive forms in art. This form of interpretation, distinguished by still nature paintings, approaches the concepts of plan, volume, mass and space with a study meticulousness contributed by the classical art tradition.

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