تقنية اللون في تزجيج أعمال الخزافين ماهر السامرائي و أكرم ناجي : دراسة مقارنة

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The current research is a comparative study that deals with the recruitment of the color in the glazing works in the field of contemporary Iraqi pottery and which is titled as :Color technique in the glazing works of the potters Maher Al-Samarrai and Akram Naji (Comparative Study).

Maher al-Samarrai and Akram Naji were selected because of their artistic and important characteristics in the pottery art in Iraqi and Arab lands.

In addition, to detect the common traits of color in the artwork of the potters, this showed the depth of the intellectual links between them in their artistic forms.

Additionally, discover the different qualities in the idea when employing the color.

The researcher needs to collect the required literatures and previous studies on the topic current study, which consists of four chapters: The first chapter discusses the research problem, importance of the study, boundaries, and determines the terms.

The aim of this study is to identify the micro and macro similarities and differences (for color) in the glass that used in the pottery works of Maher al-Samarrai and Akram Naji as an Iraqi potters.

The second chapter includes the theoretical framework, which consists of topics: the first is ‘The concept of color in fine arts’, and the second is ‘pottery art techniques to show color in artwork’.

The third chapter consists of the research methodology, its community and samples, its tools, and analysis and discussion(the applications).

The fourth chapter represents the most important conclusions such as: The analysis shows that the artwork of the potters has an aesthetic dimension by the employing the material in a modern style in addition to the great beauty that has been achieved by integration of the artwork with the color.

The results also shows that the pottery artwork presented the existence of common factors in terms of their formation represented by the size of the outer block, which are similar in terms of the outward appearance, but differ in terms of the idea and content.

This reflects the aim of the potters to make an impact on the audience in terms of the work that contains a social, communicational and / or aesthetic function.

The results discover a sensual impression on the audience that the potters adopted the Islamic heritage by adopting the character in the Arab Quranic verses as in the group (A), or by using the forms of the letters as in the group (B).

The main recommendations in this study are: 1- Provide a concept to the color, which assist it to have more attention in fine arts in general and in pottery in particular.

This should be done by teachers, critics, researchers and artists in the field of pottery.

2- Find bridges between semantics sciences and the Fine Arts and pottery.

3- Emphasize on studying the psychological factors of the artist.