Basrah Arts Journal

The research dealt with the topic ( controversy of meaning and deviation of centers in contemporary Iraqi painting ) , which was concerned with the issue of meaning and its presence in modern artistic work in particular, represented by the phenomenon of deviation from centers, and included four chapters: the first of them concerned the methodological framework of research, and contained the research problem in which it was highlighted Light on (meaning in contemporary Iraqi painting), and the research problem was identified by answering the following question: (Is there a clear controversy in the meaning through the deviations of the Iraqi painting from its centrality ؟(
As for the second chapter, it included the theoretical framework, which contained three sections, the first included the concept of controversy in philosophical thought, while the second topic included the meaning between presence and centrality, while the third topic was concerned with the argument of meaning in contemporary Iraqi painting, while the third chapter was concerned with research procedures, The fourth chapter contains the results and conclusions, including:
1- The meaning in the concept of heterogeneity as an applied procedure in the structure of contemporary Iraqi formation is notcomplete unless it enters the composite sign system in the semiotic concept in a phenomenological manner as a mechanism that transcends the sensory perception to the transformed aesthetic perception in the construction of the image as a creative process resulting from the intentional awareness of the contemporary Iraqi painter, and this applies to All models .
2- Through the analysis of the sample (2, 3), it became clear that the art of contemporary Iraqi formation was influenced by the arts of modernity and post-modernity, not by the technical concept, but by the concept of a cognitive building based on a transformative basis for structural systems, and a conceptual intellectual to reveal the absent dispersed meaning

Al-Wasiti's drawings are the first attempt to document the Arab landscape more than 778 years ago. These drawings were associated with a fine literary material, and the relationships between words and poetic sentences are matched by artistic, aesthetic and color relations in drawing, as they are all outputs of a sense that agreed in creativity and differed in the language of expression. Al-Wasiti was creative in drawing these events. Islamic painting has a goal that differs from the goals of the painting arts that preceded it or its contemporary, as it tends to “beautification” only. This is achieved by true copying from nature, just as it is achieved by drawing what is transmitted from nature, transforming and refining it. The shocking and ambiguous thing in these (Maqamah), especially in the thirty-ninth (Maqamah), He dared to draw a woman going through labor, revealing her body parts with a clear frontal drawing & we find that it exceeded what is expected of a Muslim painter. In another drawing from this (Maqamah), we notice the presence of strange beings that distort the human form and link it to some ancient Mesopotamian myths. After doing research to try to find the origin of these strange beings, the researcher reached the Mesopotamian origin of these figures (Ishtar and the Bird of Spirits), which go back to the Assyrian antiquities with ancient Babylonian roots

The current study came to shed light on the process of musical taste and its relationship to the functional exchange between the religious and secular lyrical heritage, which the researchers formulated with the following question: (Is there a relationship in the process of musical taste in the functional exchange between the religious and secular singing heritage). Which aimed to: Reveal the process of musical taste and its relationship to the functional exchange between the religious lyrical heritage and the worldly lyrical heritage. The third chapter included the selection of (17) samples from the research community converted between the religious and secular lyrical heritage. As for the fourth chapter, the results of the research included the following: The impact of the process of musical taste in the functional exchange between the religious and secular lyrical heritage and vice versa, on (Iraqi songs, radat, and virtues) the most famous and popular, and popular in Iraqi society. In light of the results, the researchers concluded the following: taking advantage of the technical and artistic advantages in the production and performance of the worldly lyrical heritage, and applying it in the production of religious heritage, while adhering to the privacy imposed on it by the religious pressure Then recommendations, proposals.

Conceptual or conceptual art considers the idea to be the machine that produces art, and the plan becomes by using artistic tools such as line, space, color, simile and etaphor in the service of the idea communicating with the recipient in an nteresting and non-traditional way and can attract the recipient and provoke his thinking and support the message contained in the design of the idea, so conceptual art played a role Important in these campaigns, through the idea, the art was able to transform the advertisement into a visual image with two dimensions that attracts the mind and arouses attention. Accordingly, the structure of the study was established in four chapters, in which the first chapter (the methodological framework of the research) came from the research problem, which is summarized in the following question :
What are the basic steps required for the success of awareness campaigns? The importance of the research and the need for it, and the aim of the research, were determined by defining the intellectual dimension of conceptual art, the objective and temporal limits of research, and the spatial limits, then defining and defining the terms. The role of conceptual art in educating the community) and then came the third chapter (research procedures) and the researcher identified the research community consisting of approximately (17) works of art.

This study represents an attempt to apply one of the epistemological illuminations which accompanied the stage of postmodernism, which is cultural criticism, which is one of the most prominent contemporary intellectual currents This study sought to reveal the Systematic contents that Stagnant under the masks of the aesthetic and the cultural defacement and to work on the Extrapolation of its symbols and their cultural dimensions, as well as seeking to analyze four types of cultural patterns in the collection of theatrical texts by the writer Ali Abd ul-Nabi ul-Zaidi tagged (the return of the man who did not die) based on the critical approaches to cultural criticism, which is the shape (masculinity/virility) and the format (war / Loss), the format of (we and the other), and the format of (absurdity and futility) and studying them in their political, social, and cultural context, consider an imaginary text full of various cultural representations by answering a set of questions: - What are these invisible patterns, and how did Do Do they manifest themselves in theatrical discourse? What are the detection mechanisms? Does it have anything to do with criticizing the political, social and ideological situation in its lived.

Going into any aspect of adolescence is one of the important basics for evaluating society, this is due to the importance of this age stage that determines building the personality of a normal individual and establishing him in a positive way for his later life stages. Therefore, this study deals with the topic of contemporary cultures and their relationship to adolescent behavior (Korean culture). a model. And due to the development of contemporary lifestyles and the diversity of cultures that target the behavior of adolescents as the most effective category in determining the future and destiny of society, new concepts and intellectual diversity have emerged that begin to control the penetration of this age group's thinking to target the culture of any society in general, and especially in affecting adolescents in some respects. Life, such as talents and ambition, such as (music, dance, movies), and it is one of the factors influencing the difference of cultures, and the introduction of certain social standards, whether in moral values, beliefs, politics, art, technologies, or marketing, an attempt to control the basis and thought of a society.

Formed the subject of formal mechanisms in the theatrical text surrealist important axis of this text, because of the similarity of their idea in their interest in form without content evidence found within this research, and this was an important motivation for the researcher to search for mechanisms formalism and reveal their work in a theatrical text surreal, with the help of a group of Russian formalists and the surrealist subtraction, and thus established the title of the research tagged with (mechanisms formalism and their work in the theatrical text surrealist play "Nahda Theresias" model) based on the systematic establishment in The first chapter by asking the research problem represented by the following question: Did the formal mechanisms work in the text? And determine the importance of the research is to try to research in the application of formal mechanisms on a surreal theatrical text, and the goal of the research, which lies in the detection of these mechanisms’ formalism and their work in a surreal theatrical text, and then the most prominent search terms, then came the second chapter (theoretical framework), which included two sections: The first topic // formal approach concepts and mechanisms. The second section // includes surrealism. And then what resulted from the theoretical framework through five indicators reached by the research. The third chapter came in its procedures including the research sample and the research methodology and tool. Finally, the fourth chapter with the results of the research and its conclusions.

Violence paints an iconic image associated with blood, cruelty, and darkness. Furthermore, the theatrical performance requires diverse performances to sublimate the iconic references to violence. The research touches on the forms and means by which the philosophy of performative violence is communicated, based on the textual environment in activating physical and vocal abilities and supporting scenography, avoiding violence on the recipient or implicating him emotionally in order to maintain his mental alertness.

This research is concerned with studying the theory of reception, searching for the basic objectives inherent in the structure of the subject, as it has occupied a large area in the course of thought because the reception is nothing but a correction of a studied idea. Receiving is subject to certain laws that make it able to perform its actual job and reflect the capabilities of its owner to adapt his skills and invest them to build an artistic structure that explains to the recipient the task of dialogue through the ages. Accordingly, the current research dealt with a study (the theory of reception and its applications in contemporary Iraqi sculptural ceramics), the research problem through the following questions: Did the recipient as a differentiated cognitive structure have a specific role in the methodological and value variables in contemporary Iraqi pottery? the results of the research, including The act of receiving is a (subjective-objective) verb based on a dialogue within a cognitive space that includes (the text with the recipient) to transcend any other statement and to be determined according to the context of the text and the cognitive system of the recipient only. Then came the recommendations and suggestions, and then put forward a list of sources and references. The research also included a summary of the research in English.

The slogan is of great importance, as it is a message with significance related to a specific goal that refers to the viewer, and its structure may be a form, letter, word, or brief free linear elements, or a mixture between them, as the slogan has symbolic connotations that excite the recipient and affect his sensory perception this research sought to present sculptural proposals for the slogans of the faculties of the university of Basrah, and this study included four chapters. To him: the importance of this study is evident from the importance of designing the sculptural logo and its pivotal role in achieving the visual identity of the faculties of the university of Basrah. As for the limits of the research: the spatial limits: (Iraq - Basrah - Basrah university) the temporal limits (2022). Among the results reached by the researcher: 1. The researcher focused on the topic of simplicity and shorthand in the models of sculptural slogans proposed for the faculties of the university of Basrah, which work to attract the concept of diversity, unity, and symmetry because of the absolute methods they contain that depict the data of the geometric perception, and its dominant aesthetic action in the form of sculptural slogans.