المراحل والاساليب الفنية في تجربة الفنان التشكيلي (مھنا الدرة)

Stages and Techniques of Jordanian Artist Muhanna Durra’s Experience

This paper relies on collecting as much as possible of the works of art by artist Muhanna Durra by visiting his studio and conducting an interview and looking at his paintings. The galleries and museums that display his paintings are visited in order to observe most of them. Then, they are collected in the form of pictures. They are studied, analyzed and categorized by periods and techniques he went through. For this study, the main purpose is to analyze the artistic experience of the Jordanian artist into phases, by classifying his works and to identify the most important characteristics and techniques of his paintings. The paper concludes that the artist has passed four stages. The blue stage seemed evident in the 1960’s. The abstract stage took place in the 1970’s to the early 1980’s, in which he included a group of his expressive abstract style through clowns’ collection. Then, the compositional abstract style has been dominated his works since the mid 1980’s to the beginning of the third millennium, in which he used the collage style.