Reflection of Sufi connotations in contemporary Iraqi painting

Abstract

Research Summary

The current research, “The Reflection of Sufi Connotations in Contemporary Iraqi Painting,” consists of four chapters, the first of which deals with the research problem, which was defined by answering the following question:

• How were Sufi connotations reflected in contemporary Iraqi painting? .

 The first chapter also dealt with the importance of research and the need for it, and also contained the goal of the research, which is

The limits of the research were determined by the period

1960 AD - 2010 AD.

While the second chapter, which is represented in the theoretical framework and previous studies, dealt in its first section: Sufi references.

While the second chapter, which is represented in the theoretical framework and previous studies, dealt in its first section: Sufi references.

The second section dealt with: Sufi connotations in contemporary Iraqi painting.

Then the indicators resulting from the theoretical framework, as well as previous studies

The third chapter (research procedures) dealt with the research community, the research sample, and the research tool, in addition to the research methodology and analysis of the sample of 4 models.

The fourth chapter contains the results, conclusions and recommendations of the research

1- And the suggestions: Among the results reached by the researcher: The impact of the connotations of reflection in the aesthetic concepts of Sufism appeared in the artistic achievements of contemporary Iraqi painting. Therefore, we find manifestations of asceticism through lines and shapes. This smoothness in the simplicity of the lines was revealed in which the inner and spiritual meanings were reflected to highlight the meaning and introspection of the subject. The completed artistic work, where the reduction in forms is through the Iraqi painter’s search for non-resemblance and spiritual and ideal purity, as asceticism was demonstrated through color in the artistic productions of contemporary Iraqi painters, and colors expressed, through their asceticism, spiritual meanings with a reflective Sufi significance, as in the model (1-2

2- The search for the content, the interior, and the essence of metaphysics beyond the physical existence of the real world is a search for truth with reflective connotations of the idealism that the Iraqi painter represents, no matter how the Sufi goes to uncover that truth and its source by abandoning the world of space and sense to the world of time and the absolute spirit. This was also evident in all models of the research sample.

Based on the results reached by the researcher, she reached a set of conclusions, which are as follows:

1- Whereas the visual discourse of the literary text, which has dimensions of reflection and connotations of Sufism, does not only express social, historical, and religious thought, but as a whole it is an openness to themes with ideal overtones.

2- We find that the experience, the semantic reflection of Sufism, has presented a new intellectual vision to the human mind, as this experience is based on rejecting the debris of the world, purifying the heart, attaching to the deity, cultivating the soul, and absorbing and dissolving in spiritual considerations. This is what the contemporary Iraqi painter proposed through his artistic products that express Everything is perfect, far from the appearances of fleeting sense.

Keywords: (reflection, connotations, mysticism)