The title of the current research is: The discourse of the image of women in contemporary Egyptian painting.

Abstract

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   This research focuses on analyzing the "discursive representation of women's images in contemporary Egyptian painting." It highlights how women are represented in contemporary Egyptian artworks within the context of political and social changes in Egyptian. The research also examines the impact of historical and cultural transformations on representations of women in art, particularly during periods of war and political conflict that Egyptian has experienced. The research addresses the role of women as a symbol in Egyptian art, as they are used in many artworks to express the suffering of society and its interaction with political and social crises. In some works, women are depicted as a symbol of pain and deprivation, while in other works, women are embodied as a strong and independent being, which reflects the transformations of society and its understanding of the concept of women's identity. Egyptian

The first chapter addressed the research problem, which was defined by the following question: "What is the discourse of the image of women in contemporary Egyptian painting?" The research aimed to identify the discourse of the image of women in contemporary Egyptian painting. The current research was limited to thematic, spatial, and temporal boundaries, encompassing the period from 2000 to 2024 for contemporary Egyptian artistic achievement.

As for the second chapter: it included the theoretical framework (the concept of discourse, the image of women throughout history). As for the third chapter: it included a research community of (50) works on the image of women, and as for the sample, it amounted to (3) artistic works that were subjected to analysis.

The fourth chapter included the research results, from which the philosophical discourse of the image of women appeared with its multiple approaches and representations in a broad way in the research sample, as a result of the breadth of its meanings and the multiplicity of its concepts that appeared in the connotations and proposals of thinkers and its harmony with the trends of contemporary artistic trends, in addition to the fact that the philosophical discourse of the image of women in itself had its own philosophy represented by Arab thinkers who worked on identity issues.

The body and symbolic representation, so the philosophical discourse of the image of women was very effective and influential and it was found to have representations in the entire research sample, so it occupied an advanced position in relation to the rest of the other intellectual discourses (psychological, religious, social, political, cultural, aesthetic).

Contemporary arts, in their dealings with the subject of social discourse, have reflected a framework for the image of women in a striking way. Social discourse, with its various concepts, has been represented in all research samples through a perception of the image of women as a social element, interacting with others, subject to their pressures or rebelling against them, which creates a social discourse that redefines their role in the public and private spheres.

It also depicts women in poor or marginalized environments, making the painting a discourse that questions social justice and places women at the heart of the class struggle. Representations of violence (symbolic or direct) are used to expose the structure of patriarchal violence, and push towards a critical reading of Arab social reality, as in models (1, 2). Conclusions: Woman is no longer just a representational subject, but has turned into a philosophical and visual idea. She is no longer depicted as a beautiful object, a victim, or a traditional icon, but also a complex intellectual symbol, used to explore questions about identity, freedom, oppression, the sacred, the self, and the other.