Representations of black humor in the drawings of the American artist Mark Barian and the Polish artist Pawel Kosinski (a comparative study) An Extracted Research

Abstract

Abstract

     The researcher derived the term (black comedy) to formulate the title of his research (Representations of black comedy in the drawings of the American artist Mark Barian and the Polish artist Pawel Kosinski - a comparative study). He formed his research system in the body of his study consisting of four chapters. The first chapter: (The methodological framework) contains the research problem, which included the following questions: How was (black comedy) represented in the works of the contemporary international painters, the American (Mark Barian) and the Polish (Pawel Kosinski)? What are the mechanisms that these two painters adopted in employing (black comedy) in their works? Then the importance of the research and the need for it, the aim of the research, its limits, and the definition of terms. This was followed by the second chapter with two topics: the first: the intellectual and philosophical concept of black comedy, and the second: black comedy in international painting. Then the indicators came to be methods and paths that assist in analyzing the sample. The third chapter (Research Procedures) included the research community, the sample which included (4) models (two models for each artist), the methodology used, the research tool, and the analysis mechanism.

Based on the above, the researcher reached a number of results and conclusions in the fourth chapter, including:

• The artist (Barian) uses the explicit style in his works, while the artist (Kosinski) uses the allusion style.
• The artists (Barian) and (Kosinski) meet in their focus on the political aspect in their artwork.
• In social life, there are many practices and actions that required highlighting them by artists, and they have always contained dark scenes lurking under the shadow of comedy and humor.

After that came the recommendations and suggestions.