The Structure of the Image in Modern Art

Abstract

The nineteenth century was characterized in all areas of life by total transformations, as this century witnessed scientific results and industrial developments, accompanied by intellectual and literary revolutions, which invaded Europe and the world afterwards. After them, many artistic movements emerged that were inspired by technological and ideological development in their components, and all this was reflected in the thought, style and technique of artistic works in the era of modernity.

The artistic image has been and still is the basic concept in aesthetic theory, as art from this point of view is a qualitative form of reflection of reality, and this reflection reads us in different ways in the arts of modernity and postmodernism in its natural form, but it remains a reflection. It differs in poetry from sculpture, from architecture, and from photography, dance, and acting, but it nevertheless remains a reflection. The following research deals with simplistic attempts to trace the concept of image structure in art.

The research was divided into four chapters, the first of which included the definition of the problem of research, its importance and the need for it, and the goal of the research, which was summarized by identifying the structure of the image in modern art. The first chapter also included a definition of the limits of the research and the definition of the terms contained therein.

As for the second chapter, which is the theoretical framework of the research, it was divided into two topics. The first topic dealt with the role of imagination, the source of images. As for the second topic, it consists of two axes, the first axis is the components of the artistic image, and the second axis dealt with the manifestations of the image in modern art. The chapter included a presentation and discussion of previous studies. The third chapter included research procedures, from the research community, the research sample and the research tool, and the analysis of the sample, as well as statistical and mathematical means, and also included an analysis of four artworks, which include (Impressionism, Surrealism, Brutality, and Cubism).