“A Thousand and One Nights tale in Ekram Omar's drawings”

Abstract

The current paper, called "The Tale of One Thousand and One Nights in Illustrations of Artist Ekram Amor", is an attempt to study the works of art that the artist has employed in her artistic productions. The folktales are based on intellectual references to the historical tale, and have made them a means of expressing aesthetic visions in her mythology. The researcher sheds light on this phenomenon scientifically and aesthetically. According to the working systems concerned with aesthetically reproducing the artwork, it appears as a self-disclosure of the imaginary ideas and visions in the same artist, so it came to be necessary to study, analyze, and identify them. The research included four chapters dealing with the first chapter: The research problem that was presented and summarized by asking what are the tales of a thousand and one nights in the drawings of artist Ekram Omar? In the light of the question raised, the importance of the current research was determined. The research also included the importance of research and the goal of (defining representations of the tales of one thousand and one nights in the drawings of Ekram Omar). The research also included knowledge of the limits of the research, which was limited to studying paintings that represented tales of one thousand and one nights and analyzing some examples of these works from the Egyptian artist's drawings for the period 2000-2021. The first chapter dealt with the concept of tales (a literary approach) and the second dealt with representations of tales in artist's drawings (Ekram Omar). Then the chapter ended with some indicators of the theoretical framework for research and previous studies. The third chapter concerned the presentation of research procedures and the research community, from which two paintings of the artist were deliberately selected to cover the boundaries of the research Finally, chapter 4, which deals with each of the findings, adopts the principle of self-expression as a direct way of transmitting her aesthetic message, which reveals the diversity of morphology and aesthetics in depicting forms in a self-modernist manner, accompanied by changes in form and coloristic values that lead to different ideas and visions of artists that eventually lead to each having his own production and style of life and art. The researcher concluded that if we read carefully, our ancient literary heritage would lead us to a treasure trove of ideas that could answer dozens of questions that could be posed in our time, in addition to recommendations and suggestions, and a list of sources.