Colour Semantics and Symbol in Abdel Hady El- Gazar's Artworks (Analytical study)

Abstract

The artwork is a human product that contains the artist’s creativity, through which he can influence the recipient with his different tools from the idea of the work itself and the elements of building the artwork and the way of dealing with those elements with a special vision of the artist, and there are many elements such as (color, line, space, etc.) In this research, two important elements are addressed: the color and its semantic as well as the symbol. Which we find are affected by time and place where different cultures. The research is not concerned with studying the psychology of colors and their effect in the absolute, but rather it is concerned with dealing with the connotation of color within the framework of analyzing the paintings and their context with the rest of the elements of the artwork. Perhaps the white color is used in one of the paintings with a completely different and perhaps opposite meaning, depending on several factors, the most important of which are the conceptual idea and the philosophy of work, the second is the relationship with the rest of the elements, and the third is the general culture. As for the symbol, it has the ability to produce

Keywords

• colour semantics
• symbol
• abd-el hady el-gazar