The Mechanism of Receptivity in Kurdish Contemporary Art

Crossing Art Project as an Example

Abstract

This research aims to identify the theory of the reception mechanism in contemporary Kurdish plastic art. As well as divided into two chapters. The first chapter includes the research problem, its importance, objectives, and limits. The research problem centred on how to use the concepts of reception theory in the artworks of the field of Kurdish plastic art. Contemporary, with a focus on the transit project as a model. The second chapter has been devoted to the theoretical framework that includes the concept of reception theory and its origins, in addition to an explanation of the concept of the recipient put forward by Jauss and Izer. The theory of reception in contemporary plastic arts has also been reviewed, and a brief overview of Kurdish plastic art, especially the transit project, has been presented. Artistic, by some Kurdish artists. Then the research community was identified and sampled, and three random artworks were chosen and analysed using the descriptive-analytical method. The results of the research came according to the interpretation of the reception theory in Kurdish plastic artwork, which includes several important points. Namely, the change in the reception mechanism in analysing and reading the visual artistic text, the increase in the importance of boldness as a feature in the visual artistic text for the recipient at various artistic, intellectual, and social levels, and the presence of a state of collision and astonishment for the recipient in contemporary plastic art that deviates from the usual and expected Based on the results reached in the research, some recommendations that serve those results were proposed.