Aesthetic Dimensions and Their Representations in Contemporary Moroccan Painting

Abstract

The researcher found it necessary to study and investigate the aesthetic dimensions and their representations in contemporary Moroccan painting, as the current research included four chapters. The first chapter dealt with the methodological framework of the research, as it included (the research problem) that presents itself in the form of questions:

Do philosophical ideas and proposals have an effective role in applying the concepts of beauty in contemporary Moroccan painting? Are there aesthetic dimensions in the contemporary Moroccan painter that have direct and indirect manifestations in his pictorial surface?

The current research aims to: Identify the aesthetic dimensions and their representations in contemporary Moroccan painting.

The current research is determined by studying the aesthetic dimensions and their representations in contemporary Moroccan painting, for the period from (1953 AD - 1978 AD), in the Maghreb country and the drawings found in some encyclopedic and artistic sources and the World Wide Web (Internet).

The second chapter included two topics: the first topic (aesthetics.. intellectually) and the second topic (aesthetic values ​​in modern Moroccan painting).

The third chapter consisted of the research community of (20) artistic paintings, and the researcher intentionally chose (3) artistic paintings from the research community for the research sample. The method of the (descriptive - content analysis) method was adopted for the current research.

The fourth chapter included the results of the research, including: The aesthetic dimension was achieved through the contemporary Moroccan artist's interest in heritage and symbols in most of his artistic works, so the intellectual and aesthetic dimension had a presence in activating the aesthetic connotations filled with symbols and signs.

As for the conclusions, they are: The work of the contemporary Arab Moroccan painter is that the shapes are subject to processes of modification and distortion to be abstract formal relationships with aesthetic dimensions and connotations.