Trends of modernist arts and its influence on contemporary Iraqi ceramics art - el arte y sus influencias en los artistas ceramistas iraquies contemporáneos

Résumé

Abstract The topic of the (Trends of Modernist Arts and its Influence on Contemporary Iraqi ceramics art) aims at defining influence of modernist artistic trends, which pervaded the artistic scene in the West from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, on contemporary Iraqi ceramic art. in order to achieve that objective and after emphasizing on problem of the study and its importance through the first chapter, the researcher defines objectives of the study as follows; 1-What are the modern art trends that have had an impact on the structure of Iraqi contemporary ceramics? 2 - How is the influence of modern artistic trends on the structure of Iraqi contemporary ceramics? 3. To what extent modernist artistic trends influenced on structure of contemporary Iraqi ceramics in the light of dialectic of heritage and contemporary? The second chapter takes up the previous studies; it consists of three studies that were previously discussed in Academy of Arts at university of Baghdad. The third chapter takes up the theoretical study which consists of three sections; the first one includes general intellectual and philosophical framework of concept of modernity as a western intellectual movement , the second one includes general philosophical and aesthetical concept of modernist arts, while the third one takes up historical context of Iraqi ceramic, starting from the historical start of the pottery art on the land of Iraq, specifically the prehistoric period, passing through its continuous historical phases in the historical periods, then ceramic art in the Islamic period till reaching the contemporary Iraqi ceramic movement . As to the fifth chapter, it takes up analysis of the study samples that are chosen intentionally from the original population in away III harmonizing with objectives of the study. The samples are twenty ones representing modernist trends and schools the contemporary Iraqi ceramist is influenced by. The fifth chapter covers results of the study; the most prominent of which is that the contemporary Iraqi ceramist is influenced by many modernist artistic trends where the artist presents artworks that approximate to principles and general aesthetic features of such schools and trends such as: Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Geometric School, Expressionism non representational , Abstract Expressionism , Symbolism, Pop Art, Cubism, and Futurism School. However, the Iraqi artist has not been influenced by some artistic trends and schools such as: Impressionist, Dadaism School, and fauvism School. The researcher also finds out that the contemporary Iraqi ceramic work is often influenced by more than one western modernist trend and school which in turn produces hybrid structure concerning the method and the way of carrying out the ceramic work. Though the western modernist artistic trends have evident influences, the ceramist tries, in a lot of the study samples, to present a ceramic artwork combining between being influenced by western modernist artistic trends and his intellectual, aesthetical and cultural heritage in a manner that matches with Arab and Iraqi contemporary vision of concept of modernity; the vision that based on combining between the heritage and contemporary.