The space sculptural forms of crystalline constructivism systems and benefiting from them in the field of science simplification

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Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Department of Art Education, Faculty of Specific Education, Alexandria University

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The beginning of the twentieth century has witnessed many changes in  science and technology that have invaded all fields, and these changes have largely captured the imagination of many plastic artists, which has provided them with new horizons  for artistic creativity, and  provided them with many modern methods and tools of performance through which they are experimented with traditional and new materials for the artist to use in various fields of arts, and  Contemporary scientific and technical research has been associated with the search for the laws of growth in nature, the external manifestations and their proportional relationship is a reflection of internal logic that translates the systems of nature into constructive laws that grow along the lines of natural elements, which include very accurate systems, and crystallography of science that has the lead in explaining the structural law on which the geometry of solid bodies is organized, the mathematician Andres Spicer was able to develop a geometric basis for drawing those geometric shapes that non-specialists in mathematics can draw.
This research discusses the relationship between arts and scientific theories through the constructivism and aesthetics of crystal formation, and inspiration from them in the work of spatial sculptures and provides some models that can be applied in scientific lessons in the departments of arts in the faculties of specific education, as well as sheds light on the aesthetic aspects resulting from that relationship and how to employ this in building his sculptural works.
The preparation of the student in the field of art education requires general preparation to develop his scientific and artistic skills and provide him with a set of knowledge and techniques to reach the creative preparation of his artistic and personal abilities in general, and the field of art education is one of the most interested fields in studying the technical aspects of artistic work and the study of plastic art in general and stereoscopic expression sculpture in particular, where the student needs a special preparation related to specialized concepts in this field, so the student deals with three-dimensional bodies that he sees from all sides and through several Systems of overlapping angles of vision require a great awareness of real space issues as well as technical and performance issues through aspects of thinking and artistic ability.  ) Abdul Wahab Abu Zeid, 2001, p  . 2 The concept of nature for the artist varies from era to era, as the concept of nature was related to what the naked eye sees or the senses perceive from the various manifestations of nature (Iman Ahmed Mahmoud Abu Dorra, 2002, p. 2).
With the tremendous scientific development in the second half of the twentieth century and with the development of techniques for microscopic vision methods, scientists and artists have discovered a strange world under the microscope unfamiliar to the naked eye that could be identified and inspired by its forms in the fields of architecture and arts, where invisible microscopic forms are a  rich source that can be used in the field of sculptural formation. Sculptural work in three-dimensional space requires the sculptor's awareness of the nature of the material used and the blocks it forms that confine the space, whether the space (internally or externally).
Therefore, the current research tended to address the element of the point as a structural basis in achieving plastic values through selections from thebodies of  nature  to crystals, in order to achieve innovative plastic values using some of the new performance methods, which is to rely on the forms and bodies of crystals as one of the natural phenomena that are characterized by the uniqueness and richness of their bodies, their diversity, where there are crystals represented in seven factions, each of which contains its own structural systems, which in turn differ from one crystal to another, which It increases the telepathy of sculptural ideas in accordance with the plastic possibilities, which is achieved by diversity in one element, which is the point, and the point as an element may appear in the  surface texture of some crystals, and others may appear in the point where the construction of these crystals depends on the gathering of points of different shapes and sizes.
A crystal can be defined as "a homogeneous solid body bounded by surfaces formed by natural factors under appropriate conditions of pressure and temperature" (Abdel Karim, 2003, p. 3).
Crystals can be divided according to the completion of crystal faces into three sections as follows)
Section I: Full-faceted  crystal when all crystal faces are   present Section II: A  crystal is incomplete when only some of these faces are present without others, Section III:  A  crystal is faceless when it is not possible to identify the crystal faces that border it, and in the latter case the crystals exist in the form of aggregates     Faceless The shapes of natural crystals depend on the nature of the crystal's surfaces or levels and on the way they are formed (Muhammad 'Izz al-Din Helmy, p. 11). The crystal may be too small to be visible to the naked eye, or it may be a few centimeters in dimension, depending on the natural and chemical conditions prevailing during its formation.
Crystals are also found in nature in several species known as the seven crystal species, and this factional division is based on the existing analogue axes as follows: (equilateral cube family - hexagonal family - quadrilateral family - trio family - rhombic family - one-mile family - three tendencies family).
It is worth noting that this research is not interested in finding the lengths, proportions and angles of natural stereoscopic crystals, but the main interest is on the external form of crystals and images on which crystals are located in nature, including the bodies of the point and the point may also exist as a texture for the surfaces of many crystals in nature, and the point may appear microscopic examination of the crystal surface, where its structural structure consists on the basis of adjacent points and different in the body, size and strength of cohesion and in the case of cohesion it is clear that the surface texture For a point-based crystallization with its sizes and roll-shaped bodies.

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