Abstract

Art is first and foremost a new point of view, and the modern artist looks at the world as if it were something he had not seen before, as if he was the first to set his eyes on the features of the universe. That is why the various creative artistic movements emerged that was characterized by trends that found for themselves common signs in the changing awareness of time. Many modern artistic movements have appeared which were embodied in sculpture in a modernist style that included various topics, the purpose of which was to reach an artistic reading characterized by creative features. To unleash the mind of the recipient to read and understand the creative text we contain according to the ability of the recipient and his intellectual level using symbolic expression, whether at the level of idea, line, color, texture, material or space. And among those movements, Spanish artists appeared who excelled in various arts, including the art of sculpture, which has always been a reflection of what stirred in their souls and minds, so they excelled in it. This was evident in the public squares, museums, galleries and exhibition halls of the artists themselves. If the researcher sheds light on a group of these sculptors and a specific time period to study the symbolic expression in modern Spanish sculpture, As the first chapter contained the problem of the research, which ended with the following question: What is the symbolic expression in contemporary Spanish sculpture? As for the goal of the research, which stipulates the definition of symbolic expression in contemporary Spanish sculpture, the importance of research and the need for temporal and spatial limits? • The second chapter contains three topics • The first topic is conceptual and artistic expression • The second topic is the concept of symbol in modern art • The third topic is the Spanish sculpture form and technique As for the third chapter of the research, it contained the research procedures, namely, the research community, which consisted of (15) sculptural work, and the research sample consisted of three works and the analysis of the sample models. As for the fourth chapter, it included the results of the research, including (coding appeared clearly in the models of the research sample through the use of sculptors for internal and external spaces and their distribution to the sculptural work). And the conclusions of the research, including (creativity was associated with symbolic expression in artistic production through the large number of stylistic transformations and the diversification of topics and treatment of them with a special aesthetic vision). In addition to the recommendations and proposals, the research ended by showing the photos of the research community.

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