The Connotations of Visual Expression in Contemporary Art

Abstract

 By tracing the history of art and since ancient times, the artist dealt with his artistic achievement with expressive indications of what it is and its content with general and special structural frameworks and formations for those arts to show the technical, psychological and physical aspects and in the form of semantic symbols to realize their meanings by the recipient, as the distinctive values of each type Each of them has expressive connotations in the memorization of visual discourses, especially in the art of painting Witnessed by artistic ages since the era of caves. The research problem was determined by the following question: Are the expressive connotations of visual discourse embodied in contemporary painting?The importance of the research included the following: Shedding light on the connotations of visual discourse in contemporary Iraqi painting. And this research could be a modest attempt by the researcher to know the visual discourse and its role in contemporary Iraqi painting.The aim of the research is (discovering the connotations of visual discourse in contemporary Iraqi painting). Temporal and spatial limits: 1960-2000 AD - Iraq. As for the most prominent resultsof the research: The connotations of the visual discourse focused in favor of the structures and social variables with formal and color connotations by contemporary Iraqi painters. Contemporary Iraqi visual discourse did not exclude the aesthetic and functional connotations as values added to the artistic value.