The Role of New Plastic Media in Enhancing the Expressive Dimension of the Eye Element as a Subject of Handicrafts

Abstract

The artist in his quest to discover new visions in art and to change his view of the known constants and to search for everything new whether in the material, technique or subject. From here, the researcher turned to trying to experiment with new materials. This material is used recently in different works and some types of techniques that are characterized by mastery, strength of expression and a beautiful appearance. Among the formative trends is that trend in which the artist deals with the subject as one of the intellectual and expressive components of the artwork. The researcher chose the eyes of creatures as a subject for her research experiment for their diversity and as elements full of expressive gestures, connotations and feelings

. Hence, the research problem arose on how to express the eyes of creatures in a plastic form, with the feelings, sensations and emotions they transmit, through the use of modern plastic media to confirm the expressive dimension of the eye element in handicrafts. The research aims to reveal the plastic and expressive potential of some modern materials and media and to employ them to confirm the expressive dimension of the eyes of creatures as a subject for handicrafts. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher produced a group of handicrafts that express the eyes of creatures using newly developed expressive formative media to confirm the expressive dimension in the subject of artistic works. The researcher turned to two approaches in experimentation to update the contemporary artistic work aesthetically and expressively, which are the subject and formative media. The research results proved the validity of the hypotheses by enriching the expressive dimension of the manual artistic product through the subject and formative media used from raw materials, techniques and other auxiliary media.