Basrah Arts Journal

Abstract
This research investigated the relationship between the intellectual content (thematic and conceptual depth) of print designs created by Fine Arts students and their executive attention capabilities.
Employing a descriptive correlational method, the study was conducted with a sample of 19 third-year students from a population of 79. Researchers developed and validated two instruments: an executive attention test and an analytical skill observation form to assess intellectual content in designs.
Key findings identified and measured two components of executive attention:
1. Focused Attention: The preparatory ability to orient the sensory system toward specific stimuli.
2. Shifting Attention: The flexible ability to transition and respond between different tasks or stimuli.
- 3Statistical analysis revealed a significant positive correlation. The skill performance in generating intellectual content (the independent variable) accounted for 10.44% of the variance in executive attention scores (the dependent variable).
Principal conclusions indicate that:
1. Richer intellectual content in student print designs correlates with higher levels of executive attention.
2. This intellectual content streamlines and facilitates the executive attention required during the printmaking skill performance.
3. Educational content enriched with topic-specific activities effectively creates a focal point to engage and direct executive attention.

Abstract:
This research examines the conceptual discourse of the concept of habitus in contemporary global ceramics. The researcher sought to shed light on this concept and interpret it as an element that reflects the social and cultural formations that permeate the creative process. The research is composed of four integrated chapters. The first chapter includes the general framework of the research, which addresses the study problem by posing questions about how the conceptual discourse of habitus is formed and its impact on shaping meaning within ceramic work. This chapter also presents the importance of the research, its objectives for the period extending from 2015 to 2023, and its temporal, spatial, and methodological boundaries, defining the basic terms underlying the study. The second chapter focuses on the theoretical framework by reviewing the conceptual discourses of habitus and linking these insights to the ceramic\'s context. This chapter, in the first section, discusses the discourse of habitus in contemporary ceramics. The second chapter addresses the conceptual context of habitus in contemporary ceramics, the transformations that have occurred in ceramic discourse under postmodern concepts, and their implications for shaping the conceptual content of contemporary artworks. The third chapter addresses the methodological procedures adopted by the researcher. The research community and its sample were identified, consisting of four global ceramic models selected according to representative criteria consistent with the study\'s objectives. The third chapter, \"Research Procedures,\" encompasses the research community and sample, the research methodology, research tools, and the steps of the adopted analysis. The fourth chapter presents the researcher\'s findings:
1-The demolition of the discourse of habitus for grand narratives represents a decisive turning point in the path of aesthetic and cognitive thinking within the structure of contemporary ceramic work. The potter is no longer subject to central patterns or strict references that have long been used.

2- The idea of an open discourse presented by the addressee to complete the construction of meaning has transformed ceramic formations into vibrating discourses whose mission is to undermine and dismantle the rigid conceptual landscape.

Summary:
Ethics is one of the first issues that concerned philosophers, and a part of philosophical research has been devoted to it since the emergence of philosophy in the country of the Greeks, and the branch that is concerned with ethics, studying it and answering its questions is called (philosophy of ethics), and this branch is concerned with the search for the origin of ethics in the individual, how it is formed, what helps to consolidate and grow it, and in which aspect the ethical act is beneficial to the individual and his society.
included two research topics, the first of which was the philosophy of morality cognitively, in which I studied the philosophy of morality from Greek and Muslim philosophers, and in the second research, I studied the philosophy of morality in theater performances, analyzing the research sample by relying on the descriptive method, and the sample is (the play Shihab and the Secret of the Book), and in the fourth chapter, the research results appeared And from her: (The director relied on scenographic elements to emphasize the philosophy of ethics, making the book of enormous, as he created music, songs, lighting, and costumes, according to the characteristics of the characters and their morals, and which emphasized the use of theatrical performance to present the philosophy of morality to the audience, and revealed the ways in which morality appeared in the research sample),then conclusions, recommendations, and suggestions, and concluded the research with a list of sources.

Research summary
This research examines the topic of aesthetic heterogeneity and how this heterogeneity clarified the influence of societal militarism on contemporary Iraqi art. The research is divided into four chapters. The first chapter was devoted to explaining the research problem, which was defined as highlighting the concept of heterogeneity in society, especially societal militarism, and how it was represented in contemporary Iraqi art. It also addressed the importance and need for the research, and its goal was to clarify the extent to which contemporary Iraqi art was influenced by societal militarism using different aesthetic methods. The second chapter consisted of two sections, including previous studies and their discussion, as well as extracting and discussing indicators of the theoretical framework to benefit from them in formulating the research tool. The first section was about the concept of heterogeneity, while the second section focused on societal militarism, explaining its starting points, types, and objectives, in addition to its causes and discussing these causes. The third chapter included the research procedures, identifying the research community and selecting the sample, then reviewing the treatments specific to the research tool, its construction method, and sample analysis. The fourth chapter included the research results and conclusions.

This study seeks to uncover the semiotic structure of meaning produced by the cinematic image within the political film, viewing the image as a layered system capable of generating meaning, reshaping perception, and reconstructing the viewer’s understanding of political reality. Through a close reading of selected scenes from El Conde, which intertwines reality with imagination, the research examines how the cinematic image becomes a tool for decoding political discourse and exposing its latent mechanisms of power.
The study explores the multi-level operation of the image through the interplay of denotation, connotation, and symbolism, analyzing how visual signs interact to build meaning and guide the viewer toward a deeper understanding of political contexts. By employing a semiotic approach, the research reveals how the political film mobilizes visual elements—such as composition, lighting, movement, and mise-en-scène—to construct ideological positions and shape the viewer’s interpretive framework.
Furthermore, the study explains how the cinematic image achieves semantic displacement, allowing it to exceed mere representation and create new layers of meaning that critique political authority. This displacement opens a broader discursive space in which the viewer can negotiate meaning beyond the surface of the image, thereby producing a predictive dimension that enables reading what lies behind events.
The study concludes that the image in the political film is not a neutral reflective medium but a semiotic field that constructs meaning through layered visual signs, granting the political film an enhanced capacity to generate meanings, influence interpretation, and orient viewers toward political discourse

Abstact
The importance of the research and the need for it, which emerged from the importance of the subject, and the importance of the research is embodied in terms of what it contains of scientific and artistic material that has its prominent role on the one hand, and the limits of the research, which were determined by the objective limits, are focused on the importance of Iraqi popular culture and its sculptural manifestations. As for the temporal limits, they are the period of research completion (2023-2025), and the spatial limits were determined, and then the terms were determined, defined, and the procedural definition. As for the second chapter (the theoretical framework and previous studies), it included two topics. The first topic examined the concept of popular culture and its types, and the second topic examined the embodiments of popular culture in sculpture, and then the indicators came. As for the third chapter, it included (research procedures), as the researcher adopted the descriptive approach, and the research community reached (2) sculptural works, and the sample reached (2) sculptural works, and they were analyzed. The fourth chapter, which included (results, discussion, conclusions, recommendations, and proposals), included the following results:
1 The types of popular culture in Iraq constitute a clear title for the heritage of Iraqi popular society, which is what makes paying attention to it of such importance
2- comprehensive understanding of the types of popular culture supports the sculptural representation of the reality of popular society in Iraq through its culture.

Research Summary
This research, which came under the title "The Melodic Characteristics of the Iraqi Ghanassik Heritage within the Eastern Musical Maqams", contained three chapters as follows:
The first chapter presented the research problem, its objectives, its importance, as well as the limitations of the research.
The second chapter included the theoretical framework with which we dealt with the concept of musical art, and the role of the oriental maqams in Iraqi music, up to Gnasiqism in Iraqi music.
In the third chapter that we devoted to the research procedures, which included the artistic construction of Iraqi musical maqms in the musical heritage and heritage to the fixed and changing in the Iraqi ghansic heritage, and then the results, conclusions, recommendations, and the list of sources and references.

Research summary:
The current study (The Aesthetic Employment of Sports Games in Contemporary World Painting) addresses how the contemporary artist employed sports games as a subject of painting, what are the motives for beauty and stimuli in those games and the individuals who play them, and how the elements of beauty differ from one game to another. On this basis, the current study was launched, which included four chapters. The first chapter was devoted to the problem, which was summarized in the following question: How did the contemporary artist employ sports aesthetically in his works? It also presented its importance, need, limits and terminology. The second chapter included the theoretical framework, as it included two sections, the first entitled the historical dimension of sports games, and the second section entitled the impact of sports movements on global drawing. The third chapter contained the research procedures represented by the method, society, research tool and analysis of the research sample of three models. The fourth chapter included the results, their discussion, conclusions, recommendations and suggestions.