The naked human body and its aesthetic and semantic value in theatrical space

The theatrical space is the visual support of the text or the presented event , it is the physical or imaginary pictorial presentation in which the event takes place , it is the place where the characters struggle . The most important main goals of theatrical decoration design is to help the recipient understand the theatrical work, Express the events of the play, introduce the viewer to the time and place of action, and find the appropriate atmosphere that expresses what the theatrical text aims at through various design elements .Where the designer makes a lot of efforts in inventing new types of means and symbols and for suggestions that succeed in attracting the attention of the recipient, and succeed in reaching his mind easily.

The naked human body has helped the artist throughout the ages to express and suggest the imaginary world, finding in it what he could not find in tangible reality, clothes or costumes inform the viewer of a certain time epoch, and the naked body allows the artist and the audience to skip time and also suggests immortality.

Naked bodies are a subject with a holistic vision that has roots in the history of world art that we see almost everywhere from ancient civilizations to the present day, the ancient Greek civilization was one of the civilizations in which artistic representation of nudity spread the most, and was considered an example of absolute perfection and beauty, a concept that has persisted in classical art until today.

This study was based on clarifying the importance of the naked human body in various works of art, how to exploit it in the theatrical space, and clarifying its role and connotations in the presentation of the theater, because the naked body has the ability to store a huge amount of feelings of the unconscious world, which includes a mysterious and interesting magical world that expresses reality in an indirect way that affects the recipient a clear effect.