A master's thesis at the College of Fine Arts, University of Basrah, examined the aesthetic dimensions of the mask in contemporary international formation - an analytical study.
The thesis discussed the aesthetic dimensions of the use of masks in art and how the formal and symbolic uses of the mask and its uses in contemporary plastic arts
The thesis aims to reveal the idea of employing the mask for its magical, aesthetic and expressive dimensions and the ability to hide the entire face or part of the face and transform from one character to another and to show a new identity that the artists took in their subjects The thesis concluded that the mask played a function that the artist worked on from the psychological aspect and the employment that he took in his experience through the psychological emotions that man sometimes expresses about his psychological feelings.
