Representations of Ideology and Liberation in Contemporary European Painting

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Nahla Naji Ali Al-Najm, Dr. Zahra Hadi Kadhim

Abstract

The present study includes four sections. Section one includes the research problem, significance, the research objectives and limits, and definitions of key terms contained therein. Section two includes the theoretical framework. It is subdivided into two subsections. The first subsection tackles the concept of philosophical ideology, and the second subsection discusses the relationship between art, ideology, and society. Section three presents the research procedures represented by the research population, sample, tools, validity and reliability, and the analysis of the sample by placing it as a basic sample for the present study. The results of the present study, conclusions, recommendations, and suggestions are presented in section four. Some important results are as follows:



  1. The visual text ideology is an important tool of creative artistic expression that has a strong influence on the recipient as it is an expression of reality in a special creative way.

  2. Artists are inspired by the national and religious heritage of some heroic themes with an ideological discourse that arouse the artist’s national and ideological sense by reproducing them in harmony with the artist’s style and nature.


The basic conclusions of the present study are as follows:



  1. The contemporary European plastic artist recorded his works’ inspiration themes from several sources, which are either realistic, contemporary, or historical, or an embodiment of religious, political, anecdotal events from the past, or mythological events that have their ideological depth.

  2. The continuity of artistic culture has been subject, over the decades tackled in the scope of the present study, to the ideology of the ruling authority, which ideologized everything related to art according to its beliefs and designed artworks to instill a sense of national pride and to immortalize the leader.

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