Stylistic transformations in modern sculpture

Authors

  • Nour Majid Omran College of Fine Arts/University of Baghdad
  • Mortada Aboud Shehab University of Baghdad\College of Fine Arts

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35560/jcofarts1834

Keywords:

Transformations, Style, Contemporary Sculpture

Abstract

The current research includes four chapters. The first chapter serves as a research methodology and includes the research problem, which extends to answering the following questions: What are the motives behind these stylistic transformations? What is the artistic and aesthetic value of these stylistic transformations? From all these questions, the research will attempt to answer them, and the terminology. The second chapter, (Theoretical Framework), consists of two sections: the first section: (Transformation: Concept and Meaning), and the second section: (Stylistic Diversity in Modern Sculpture). The third chapter, (Research Procedures), includes the research community, its sample, and the methodology and analysis of the sample. The fourth chapter includes the research results and conclusions, the most important of which are:

  1. Style in the art of sculpture represents a kind of hypothetical equation, which the artist establishes to re-read the structural interpretation of his aesthetic vision according to the system of diversity imposed by visual transformations resulting from the rapid change of intellectual theses.
  2. There is a shift or diversity in the artistic style in general in the study models, as well as a multitude of technical diversity, through implementation and innovative processing methods, as well as the duality of idea and technology as a creative necessity.

The study then concludes with recommendations, proposals, and sources.

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2026-08-01

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Stylistic transformations in modern sculpture. (2026). Al-Academy , 123, 245-256. https://doi.org/10.35560/jcofarts1834

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