PhD Assignment- Women and Saudi Arabia
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Table of ContentsResearch title..............................................................................................................................3Main keywords...........................................................................................................................3Summary....................................................................................................................................3Rationale....................................................................................................................................4Research questions...................................................................................................................10Creative Practice Methods......................................................................................................11Position of research in terms of discipline and community practice.......................................161.Famous European pioneer artists and Grid pattern...........................................................182. Contemporary artists and grid pattern..................................................................................223. Jewelry and grid patterns.....................................................................................................24Initial literature review.............................................................................................................251.Saudi Female artists..............................................................................................................26Folk Saudi female artists, Fatemah Abougahas(1920-2010)...............................................26Oil revolution artist, Safia Said Binzagr born in1940..........................................................28Female academic artist, EimanElgibreen (B.1981)..............................................................302.Female artist from the middle East.......................................................................................31Shirin Nehat (Iranian, 1957)................................................................................................32Boushra Almutawakel..........................................................................................................33Some resources.........................................................................................................................34Arab Women: Between defiance and Restraint by Suhasabbagh........................................34Page1
Women and Powerinthe MiddleEast by Suad Josephand Susan Slyomovics (editors).......36Outline of progress...................................................................................................................38Year 1: 2017.........................................................................................................................38Year 2: 2018.........................................................................................................................38Year 3: 2019.........................................................................................................................38Year 4: 2020.........................................................................................................................38List of Figures..........................................................................................................................39Bibliography.............................................................................................................................41Page2
Research titleCreativity versus conservatism: An exploration of factors that influence the SaudiArabian women’s art practice.Main keywords•Saudi women art•Creative practice •Geometric formSummaryThis study attempts to examine the position of Saudi women as artists before and afterthe 1980 oil revolution and explores the ways by which the women express their thoughts,emotions, intuitions, and desires within Saudi Arabian conservative society. Along with this,the research also discusses the content of work done by female artists. The research will alsodiscuss the works of the Saudi Arabian female artists as well as their intellectual andideological thinking, which helped in the process of the creation of the art-works.My project will contain two components: the creative practice and the theoreticalresearch. My creative practice will take into consideration the paintings and sculptures. Inmy research, I will practice paintings and use them as well as sculptures tools of investigationinto the Saudi Arabian female creativity experience within their conservative culture.The study will try to understand how these female artists expressed their feelingsabout their surroundings through their artworks. This study will also depict how art was usedby them to depict the society and culture of the people of that era. Here, special attention willPage3
be focused on three artists – Fatemah Abougahas (1920-2010), Safya Said Binzagr (1940-2000) and Eiman Elgibreen (contemporary artist), representing folk Saudi, wealthy Saudi andacademic female artists as a whole. The methodology of this study is based on the principles of action research and willtake a cyclic approach involving four steps of planning (visualization), acting (practices),observing (impact), as well as reflecting (results) based on the developments of the studiopractices. The study will utilize both context as well as commentary to emphasize therelationships between artworks and theoretical research. The exegesis performed the role ofcontextualizing the practice. The commentary focuses on the creative process and the creativeworks1. Paintings, digital designs and sculptures will be the main components of my creativepractice. The artifacts will reflect on the experience of women artists in my native country ofSaudi Arabia. The commentary on my creative practice involves an annotation andexplication of the artworks.RationaleAs a Saudi female artist, I find this research as an opportunity to explore theexperience of contemporary art in Saudi Arabia through the perspective of a woman artistwho is a part of the same conservative society. This research aims to study the outpouring ofinner thoughts and memories in the creative art of the women. The work will also explore theinfluence of the conservative values of Saudi Arabia, where women are taught to suppresstheir views and experiences. 1Milech, B.H. &Schilo, A. (2004). ‘Exit Jesis’: relating the exegesis and the creative/production components of a research thesis. TEXT, special issue No 3.Retrieved July 2, 2008, from http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue3/milechschilo.htm.Page4
The major population of the Saudi Arabia belongs to the middle class by virtue oftheir social as well as economic origins. However, the female artists of Saudi Arabia, can bedifferentiated into three broad categories- the Folk artists, post-oil revolution artists andfemale academic artists. These Saudi Arabian women artists have created new boundaries inthe contemporary art scene by virtue of their considerable grace, subtlety and drive,. Theirworks are of a feminist nature and ask questions about the nature of the conservative societyof Saudi Arabia.I will critically examine as well as reflect on the work of female artists, whoattempted to express their liberal as well as modern views in Saudi Arabian conservativesociety. The paper will focus on the works of Fatemah Abougahas, Safia Said Binzagr andEiman Elgibreen, whose works represent the key aspects of Saudi Arabian culture.The key problems of conservatism in Saudi Arabia, like the conservative nature ofSaudi people, lack of public art as well as women having limited chance to engage in publicactivities is important to the proposal to project these artist’s stories2 . This attaches anegative connotation to Saudi women’s art.Those artists have been selected for two reasons, firstly, because of their remarkableeffort of practicing art in early stage of Saudi art movement "as a woman". The second reasonis that each of them represents one of the three major categories of Saudi female artists whichthis paper is going to explore.2Ttu-ir.tdl.org. 2017. "Cite A Website - Cite This For Me".Ttu-Ir.Tdl.Org.https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/63583/KATTAN-DISSERTATION-2015.pdf?sequence=1Page5
The first category of women selected for this research is the ,self-taught or untrainedartists who practiced art through their pure artistic instinct, particularly in Asir regionsouthern of Saudia Arabia. Fatemah Abougahas, can be considered as one of the “Alqatt” artleaders of this category. Alqatt and Alnagash“ art is the local name of traditional art in Asirhome in south of Saudi Arabia. Women who specialized in “Alqatt” art, specialized in lines,engravings and aesthetic formations. This abstract art form expresses the spiritual reality ofthe mystic. Alqatt involves the use of decisive patterns and primary colours, which arewelcoming as well as technical3. This art mainly adorns the stone home interiors of Asir inthe southern region of Saudi Arabia . Here women followed the tradition of house painting,since the home is dominated by the females.Figure 1: FatemahAbouGahas with her famous Alqatt and Alnagash Paintings, Asir,South of SaudiaArabi.3Al-Hababi, Haifa.The Art Of Women In’Asir (Saudi Arabia). Eigenverlag/Self-published, 2012.Page6
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