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Saudi Arabia's Contemporary Art Assignment

   

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Welcome everyone,My name is xxxx from xxxx and this is my PhD confirmation seminar.My project is about Saudi women working as an artist in Saudi Arabia before and after oil revolution. My thesis examines the ways in which women have attempted to express their thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and desires within Saudi Arabian conservative society.As a Saudi female artist, this research is an opportunity to explore the experience of contemporary art in Saudi Arabia through the perspective of a woman artist who is part of the same conservative society.My research discusses what the factors that have shaped her artistic identity and how she strengthens andbuilds her identity through artworks?While I was doing my Masters of visual art and creative practice in South Australia University, I have focused on "Consumerism" in Saudi Arabia and how the Saudi people became over-dependent on oil revenues, and I have explored the contribution of the younger generation to the problem .I tried to address the situation through creative practices that I exhibited in some exhibitions in Adelaide 2015/2016It provoked me to get closer to the issues in Saudi society, especially those related directly to a Saudi female artist Research TitleThe research title of the project is “Creativity versus conservatism: A creative exploration of factors that influence the Saudi Arabian women’s art practice.”Main keywords •Saudi women art •Conservatism •Creative practice •Geometric formThis creative exploration demand studying the Saudi female artist’s intellectual and ideological thinking,which has shaped the thinking and creation of the artworks. Despite constraints faced by Saudi artists, and obstacles which could limit the artistic creative choices such as the conservative nature of Saudi people, significantly less public art have reduced possibility to engage in public activities. The censorship has also stood in the way of culturally sensitive artwork .The research questions of this research are -How do Saudi women artists express their thoughts through art to compensate the lack of visual artistic representation of women in Saudi Arabia? -Does the nature of Saudi conservative society limit a woman's sense as an artist? If so, why?

I will be answering questions through two components: creative practice and the theoretical research ,The theoretical frame will review different styles of Saudi female artworks, and I have chosen three Saudi female artists who represent the main art category in Saudi Arabia.Fatemah Abougahas (1920-2010) the folk artists ,Safya Said Binzagr (1940-2000) oil revolution artistsEiman Elgibreen (contemporary artist) female academic artists.The first category is the self-taught or untrained artists who practice art through their pure artistic instinct, particularly in the Asir region of southern Saudi Arabia. Fatemah Abougahas, can be consideredas one of the “Alqatt” art leaders of this category. "Alqatt and Alnagash“ art is the local name of traditional art in Asir home in south of Saudi Arabia. Women who specialize in “Alqatt” art were specialized in lines, engravings, and aesthetic formations. This abstract art form express the spiritual reality of the mystic. Alqatt involves the use of decisive patterns and primary colors, which are warm as well as technical This art mainly adorns the stone home interiors of Asir in the southern region of Saudi Arabia .The second category is the female artists who belong to the wealthy class, whose position was enhanced by the Saudi oil revolution of 1938. These artists belonged to families which possessed the economic power. They were the part of the first families that invested in the Saudi economic boom in the early 1980s. It provided them with the opportunity to travel as well as study in some of the best art schools of Europe, which was denied to the majority of the Saudi Arabian women .The third category is academic artists or artists who studied art professionally, are the kind of artists whobelong to the third category. These artists usually belong to the middle class and exhibit the desire to learn the art. They have been successful in going abroad and studying art in an international context. Practicing art in western universities is a typical example of the desire to learn art, and this is a reflectionto determine the attitude of Saudi female artists. Eiman Elgibreen (1981-present) is the epitome of such female artists in Saudi Arabia.Through theoretical research, I will try to understand how female artists (including myself) can express their feelings about Saudi culture through artworks, and reviewing how art was used historically to depict the society and culture of the people of that era .It will demand to study the context of the art journey for each of the artists through an examination of thecontext they work. The examination will be conducted in relation to their physical environment, historical trends and traditions, cultural values, intellectual perspectives, and more.The second component of my research is -The creative practice will be expressed through paintings and sculptures. These are the tools of investigation which explores the Saudi Arabian female experience within a conservative culture. My artworks will embody the factors that play a key role in Saudi women art,

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