The Significance of the Logo of NEOM in Plasticizing Contemporary Abstract Artworks

The current study aimed at plasticizing contemporary artworks by activating the formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM through the concept of abstract art. To achieve the study objectives, participants were asked to plasticize contemporary artworks using multiple-sized canvas, several coloring materials, a computer and some software as a technological medium, and high-quality printer papers to activate the significances of the logo of NEOM. Abstract artworks were displayed and analyzed in the light of activating the formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM. The author follows the descriptive approach and the quasi-experimental approach. The experiment was applied to female students in the Arts Lab at Umm Al-Qura University in 2018/ 1439H. The experiment yielded the ability of activating the logo of NEOM in artworks (plastic works), combining the significances of the logo of NEOM and abstract art produces unusual artworks, plastically activating the logo of NEOM resulted in enriching the aesthetic value of artworks, and formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM enrich plastic arts especially abstract works. The author recommends keeping up with contemporary progress and events and inspiring plastic artworks from the reality around the artist.

NEOM in plasticizing contemporary artworks depending on geometric and expressive bases.Each part of the logo has a denotative significance: The trees indicate the environment, the fingerprint indicates arts, the blue squares indicate energy, the interlaced circles indicate communication, and the digital network indicates technology (arabic.cnn.com).
They all combine the formal beauty and the denotative significance serving art education, plastic arts, and plastic photography, in particular.

Statement of the Problem
Thus, the problem of the study can be summarized in asking the following major question: Can the significances of the logo of NEOM be employed to generate new visions of plasticizing contemporary artworks?

Objective
The study aims at plasticizing contemporary artworks by activating the formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM through the concept of abstract art.

Significance
The significance of the study can be presented as follows: 1) Keeping up with the current development in KSA by plastically activating the significances of the logo of NEOM.
2) Tackling a vital branch of contemporary plastic art, i.e. abstract art.
3) Highlighting the role of formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM in enriching plastic art.

Limitations
Limitations of the study are categorized as follows: 1.4.1 Objective Limitations 1) Abstract art and its techniques.
2) Formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM and semantics.

Temporal Limitations
The present study is conducted in 2018 (1439H).

Spatial Limitations
The experiment was applied to female students in the Arts Lab at Umm Al-Qura University.

Method
The study adopts the descriptive, analytical and quasi-experimental approaches.
-The descriptive approach is a method of describing the topic to be studied through a valid scientific methodology.Then, results are expressed as digits that can be interpreted (Obaydat et al., 1999). - The analytical approach is used to study reality or a phenomenon.It accurately describes and expresses it quantitatively and quantitatively (Obaydat, 2004).
-The quasi-experimental approach depends on studying the human phenomena as they are, or it is based on studying the relation between two variables without controlling them.

Literature Review
The following sections review some relevant studies: Gerges (2013) aims at designing commemorative stamps expressing the most important stages of the Palestinian cause in order to completely express those stages by unifying formal and plastic formulas, color stamp, type of writing, and sizes in all of the implemented commemorative stamps.The study adopts the descriptive analytical and experimental methods.It concludes that here is lack of interest in the Palestinian stamp that completely expresses all the aspects of the Palestinian cause and identity.Accordingly, it recommends that Palestinian commemorative stamps have to include the most important active and significant symbols to successfully communicate the stamps' advertising messages.Besides, those symbols shall be artistically and aesthetically employed in terms of the basics of stamp designing.The present study agrees with Gerges's in employing symbols and significances.They differ in the source of data and the field to be enriched by employing those significances.
Qasemy (2005) aims at identifying the significances of place in expressionistic stage presentations with specific focus on the plays of the College of Fine Arts.The study adopts the descriptive analytical method in describing the significances of place and analyzing expressionistic stage presentations.It agrees with the present study in being based on defining the concept of significances and adopting the same method.However, while the present study explores the significances of the logo in the field of plastic arts, Qasemy (2005) proves to be useful for the present study in that it comprehensively defines the concept of significances and denotative expressionistic meanings .Ghamdi (2004) is an attempt to identify the educational significances derived from the verses of patience in the doctrinal, moral and ethical aspects and identifying their educational applications to family and school.The study adopts the deductive method.It agrees with the present study in clearly defining the concept of significances, but the present study differs in searching for the formal and denotative significances of the logo, while Ghamdi's adopts a deductive method special for the significances of the Holy Qur'an.It helps the present study in identifying the significances and denotative values that can be deduced from the logo of NEOM.

Significances
Significance is what signifies something.It refers to a formative intentional meaning aiming at stimulating subjective and objective meanings and analyzing them into facts related to the receiver's mind in order to participate in activating the relation between the signifier and the signified (AlKasmi, 2005).
It is procedurally defined as what leads to recognizing something as the significance of formal and denotative symbols and images in designing the logo of NEOM.

Logo
It is a "graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public recognition.It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name it represents, including a country, city, union of countries or organizations, institution, company or body (wikipedia.org).

NEOM
It is a Saudi project of a planned transnational city.It is part of the ambitious aspirations of Vision 2030 aiming at transforming KSA into a global pioneer model in all aspects of life (wikipedia.org).

The Logo of NEOM
It is a logo designed as a pentagram; each side has a symbolic drawing related to the vision of NEOM (Al-Fifi, 2017).
It is procedurally defined as an image symbolizing five different aspects of life that are aimed to be developed by the project; each aspect has its own formal and denotative significance.

Plasticizing
Linguistically, plastic arts are types of drawing or sculpturing which involve drawing natural and social views and so on in specific sizes and figures according to their drawings (Almaany Arabic Dictionary).
They refer to the practical application of scientific theories using appropriate means.They are acquired by studying and creating things that enjoy the mind through feelings (Dakheel, 2008).
Procedurally, they express a language that an artist tries to convey by a new artistic idea that distinguishes him.They also refer to plasticizing contemporary abstract artworks based on employing the significances of the logo of NEOM.

Abstract Artworks
Abstract art is the philosophical framework where abstracting is based on the essential features of natural forms by abstracting aesthetic traits of sensual forms and images (Hassan, 2003).
Procedurally defined, abstract artworks are based on transcending the familiar forms towards more free artworks depending on pure relations between the plasticizing elements that may be geometric or expressive that expresses the intention of the artist.

Contemporary
The term describes something living or occurring at the same time or following modern ideas in style or design (Pearsall, 2002).Procedurally, it refers to the contemporary creative artwork related to the artist's ability to keep up with the developments, changes and events of his present time.

Abstract Art and its Techniques (1910)
Exploring plastic arts in previous times reveals the emergence of new features of freedom of expression and respect for the artists' subjectivity.Some artworks call for revolting against traditions of the past in order to cope with the zeitgeist through creativity.Those artists combined artistic schools; each one had its own artistic vision and doctrine.For example, there were the New Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, and Abstract Surrealism (Azzam, 1999).
Abstractism was introduced in 1910 aiming to achieve abstract creativity of simulation.In other words, it aims to express abstracting pure forms of their sensible details, which do not imply any real features.It also aims to get artistic results through form, line and color (Azzam,199).The first pure abstract artwork was created by the Russian painter and art theorist, Wassily Kandinsky.
The major theory of abstract art is based on materialism.It appeared for the first time in nearly 1915 in the works of the Russian structuralist artists who paid great attention to the essence, forms, colors and patterns, and rejected the technique of narration, poetry and emotional experiences.They positively formed the new era and its scientific pillars.
The term was initially used at the end of World War II in 1945 referring to the art that is totally free from material or subject of the drawing.Then, pure abstraction got widely famous due to the works of abstract expressionists and the artists of New York School such as Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky and Franz Kline.
Abstract art employs symbols to refer to metaphysical elements in order to reach out to absoluteness.It transforms natural forms from their occasional shapes into immortal essential forms; i.e. moving from partial properties to total qualities (Hassan, 2003).It describes the process of abstracting the essence of a natural form to be presented in a new one.Since the era of Cézanne, abstract artists have been far from imitating nature.Then, Cubists followed them by disjoining natural forms to be reformulated by a new geometric technique (AbuDibsah and Gaith, 2008).Thus, sceneries are transformed into just triangles, squares and circles.Then, the abstract painting appears as accumulated scraps of paper, sectors of rock or clouds, i.e. it appears as just harmonized pieces that do not have direct visual significances even if it implies some aspects of the artist's plastic experience.Generally, abstractism intends to find out and express the essence of things as concise forms bearing the artistic experience that nudged the artist's imagination.The word "abstraction" denotes the elimination of all the traces of reality (Yahia, 1993).

Abstract Expressionism
It is also called abstract art.Abstract Expressionism moved away from the traditional ideas of plastic values and basic features through extreme emotion characterized by humanitarian aspects such as the artist's subjective vision of himself demolishing structural visual aspects to be replaced with his own world to be painted (Yahia, 1993).
Its most prominent artist was Wassily Kandinsky who was the leader of this movement.His abstract works went through several stages and could be divided into three periods, as follows: a) When he lived in Germany, it was characterized by abstract designs of expressionistic forms.
b) When he moved away from the previous expressionistic stage and his abstraction took on a geometric character, he depended on coherent design, not on colors.His paintings were characterized by integrated geometrical designs full of straight lines and arcs.That was clear in his Multicolored Circle (Figure 1).
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Results
In the light of the displayed plastic artworks, for example but not limited to, the study concluded some results.The formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM can be utilized in plasticizing as well as analyzing plastic artworks created by the participants.The experiment yielded that combining the significances of the logo of NEOM and abstract art produces unusual artworks.In addition, Plastically activating the logo of NEOM resulted in enriching the aesthetic value of artworks.Formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM enrich plastic arts based on abstract thinking.Contemporary abstract artworks created by the participants contribute to educating the members of the society about how the formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM can be utilized in creating artworks with future style and high aesthetic value.The significance of the logo of NEOM is of valuable important, as helped participants create contemporary artworks and led to the expansion of their imagination.

Recommendations
In the light of the concluded results, the study recommends: 1) Adopting and supporting the trend towards employing the formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM in creating plastic artworks.
2) Directing the attention of artists to the importance of employing the formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM in creating contemporary plastic artworks.
3) Issuing specialized artistic journals to highlight the importance of activating the formal and denotative significances of the logo of NEOM in creating plastic artworks, to spread the culture of the significances of the logo as well as to publish it on various websites.
4) Conducting more studies on the project of NEOM and its denotative significances.
5) Keeping up with contemporary progress and events, as well as inspiring plastic artworks from the reality around the world. Figure Figure 4 Figure 7 Figure 9 Figure 11.
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