A master's thesis at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Basrah examined proposed artistic treatments for monuments and statues in the city of Basra.
The thesis presented by researcher Haider Karim Dair included the topic of artistic treatments that shed light on monuments and sculptural statues in the city of Basra, diagnose the negatives and positives, and develop a proposed treatment for the negatives, artistically and aesthetically.
The thesis discussed several concepts, including the structural and aesthetic elements of monuments and sculptural statues and the environment and its relationship to monuments and statues in Iraq from 1970 to 2003.
The thesis aims to identify the artistic and aesthetic negatives present in the monuments and statues in the city of Basra and to construct proposed artistic treatments for them.
The thesis concluded that most of the sculptural works tend towards abstraction and ambiguity in their subjects, and most of the sculptural works suffer from the presence of things around them, such as trees, billboards and caravans, as well as bridges, and some of them suffer from neglect and lack of maintenance of the fountain that is part of the work.
