The innate art of sculpture between copying and creativity

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Teaching Assistant -Department of sculpture Faculty of Fine Arts- Luxor University

Abstract

Art is considered the mirror of real life in which humanity sees the stages of its development, and this is because art has been a companion of man since his first steps in his development record. Therefore, the instinct and the first realization of man and self-education were the motive for him in his development in various fields of life. Its image is simple until the art became a professional art based on many rules and foundations, and the innate art of sculpture went through many stages of development, starting from the primitive ages and passing through the ancient Egyptian art in which the artist became a professional and established his own school, then it appeared clearly in the Coptic and Islamic era, where he was influenced by it Religious beliefs and environmental and societal conditions, but in the modern era, in which scientific schools and universities appeared to study various sciences, literature and arts, and among them appeared colleges and institutes Specialized in the study of plastic arts in an academic manner based on many rules, foundations and theories developed by senior art professors in their specializations, in which the two elements of the educational process are available, namely the teacher and the learner, which made the study of arts in these specialized academies a way to the presence of a modern artistic movement based on the hands of academic artists Specialists who learned at the hands of professors from senior artists, especially in the field of sculpture.

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