السمات الجمالية لتوظيف الأقنعة في الحضارات القديمة

الملخص EN

This research aims to highlight the aesthetic features of the use of masks in ancient civilizations, as its importance lies in identifying the meaning of the mask through its passage on the history of the concept of the mask, its philosophical root, and the products of artists in the ancient civilization.

On the research problem that the researcher showed in the summary of his question, what are the aesthetic features of using masks in ancient civilizations? The researcher identified a time period represented by the arts of civilizations (oth century BC-19 AD) within the spatial boundaries of (Iraqi civilization-Egyptian civilization - Greek civilization), which showed the objective limits represented by artworks in civilizations, and the terms contained in the text of the research were identified, the linguistic and philosophical context And the technical and procedural, while the second chapter included a theoretical framework, it contained two sections, the first topic: (the philosophical root of the mask), while the second topic (masks in ancient civilizations), was divided into three axes-The mask in the ancient Iraqi civilization-The mask of civilization in ancient Egyptian-The mask of civilization in ancient Greek, and the second chapter ended with the results of the theoretical framework of indicators, while the third chapter included the research procedures and included the method used in the research, as the descriptive research was adopted.

The researcher chose (") artworks from different civilizations to serve The aim of the research is from the research community, where this was an intentional choic.

Then the researcher touched in the chapter to review the results and 1- The idea of the mask was shaped in art history.

The idea of employing the mask came because of its magical, aesthetic and expressive dimensions, and it has the ability to hide the entire face or part of the face and transform from one character to another and to show a new identity that the artists took in their subjects to express thoughts and emotions, and self-expression.

Existing within the human artist within the processes expressed by the human through this mask.

-The artist emphasized the clarification of the idea of the mask through the mixing of texts, and this mixing between the animal/human races that the artist worked on from memory and evoking ideas for these vocabulary and provoke the recipient about the concept of the mask and its work in social life and its employment and mixing its formal structures of the mask and employed in its gains The mythology that this idea took from the Iraqi civilization as a magical presence that underwent treatments about ideas and imaginations through this human face and animal body using this mask and its body through its traditional meanings and acquiring these historical connotations due to the formative overlap of the shape of the mask.