The Artist’s Envisaged Image and its Role in Representing Historical Events (Modern European Imagery as a Model)

Abstract

Objectives: This research paper aims to examine the importance of the artist’s envisaged image and its role in representing pivotal historical events artistically in modern European imagery. The researcher seeks to underpin the significance of such historical events and their impact on the consciousness of European artists. Hence the aforementioned title.

Methods: The researchers depend on the descriptive approach to analyze the content of the research sample, which consists of 6 models. A critical perspective is used, determined by the researchers’ purpose.

Results: Artists express recorded, known historical events with images that are set apart from realistic forms, in an attempt to depict the depth of meaning and significance of the event. European artists have succeeded in attracting the audience’s attention from the onset, helping them to grasp the literary work and its theme. This suggests that the artist is aware of the indications offered by his work in terms of documenting and depicting the historical event.

Conclusions: Historical events in the European society had a great impact on all the aspects of life in general and on art in particular, especially the art of imagery. Through their envisaged images of these events, European artists played an important role in their visualization and artistic representation, by offering works with deep suggestive implications. As such, these works serve as an immediate visual discourse in the receiver, helping him to perceive the nature of the topic offered to him through the work.