Taking Issues of Violence Against Yemeni Women in Yemeni Plastic Art

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the issues of violence against Yemeni women in Yemeni plastic art from the plastic artists' point of view. ‏

     Where an intentional sample of five plastic artists was studied, and the research tool used was the interview, and the study used the descriptive analytical approach, through which the issues of violence against women in plastic art were described, and the size and quality of these issues were known, and the method of violence against women was used. Content analysis and the semiotic approach to study and analyze the contents and semantics of ten paintings from the works of the artists themselves. This study was carried out in the capital, Sana’a, in 2023 AD. The most important findings of the study were:

-The most prominent issues that the paintings dealt with in the study were issues of domestic violence, underage marriage, and verbal and sexual harassment.

- That dealing with issues of violence against Yemeni women in Yemeni plastic art was not a great deal. However, some artists’ works dealt with an important number of these issues, the most important of which were domestic violence, underage marriage, verbal and sexual harassment... This was evident in the number of paintings that are discussed in this study

The works of artists that dealt with issues of violence against women did not receive interaction and popularity, due to the lack of appreciation of the value of plastic art and ignorance of its positive impact on the awareness and development of societies.

- The Yemeni artist faces religious, political, social and economic obstacles that negatively affect his productivity and impose restrictions on him, trying as much as possible to go along with them so that he does not break the mold of legacies, customs and traditions and tries to raise these issues in a simple and appropriate manner with the thought of Yemeni society