The aesthetics of artistic composition in the drawings of Wasmaa Al-Agha
Keywords:
Wasmaa Al-Agha, paintingsAbstract
The current research includes a study of the aesthetics of artistic composition in the paintings of Wasmaa Al-Agha. The research is divided into four chapters: The first chapter includes a statement of the research problem, followed by its significance and then the objective, which is to identify the aesthetics of composition in Wasmaa Al-Agha's paintings. The second chapter includes the theoretical framework, which consists of two sections: the first deals with the aesthetics of composition in contemporary Iraqi painting, while the second focuses on miniature art as one of the trends in Iraqi painting. Through this, the researcher arrives at the most important findings of the theoretical framework as indicators for analyzing the research sample. The third chapter is dedicated to the research procedures and the analysis of the three sample paintings. The fourth chapter includes the research results, the most important of which is that women constitute the main subject in most of Wasmaa Al-Agha's paintings, as seen in all the samples
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