The folk environment as a source of influence on the artist

Abstract

 The popular environment is one of the most important surrounding and influencing factors in human thought. Since the existence of man, he began to interact with it, through which he meets his needs, is affected by them, and enhances his sensory perceptions in them. It is an inspiring source for many works of art in all its aspects, and it enhances the ideas of the artist through what he adds and takes from the environment. And when the artist goes towards the completion of any work of art, he devotes most of his attention to identifying what exists in his spatial surroundings, with what he has form  popular culture. Nature is the spiritual source of the rules, and nature may be similar in the human body, habits and instincts, for man himself is a natural phenomenon of this universe that he created. The popular environment is a wide field, and it is difficult to encompass it in all its aspects, so the researcher chose some preliminaries  that allow understanding the subject as much as possible. This study deals with the impact of the popular environment on the works of art that appeared since ancient times, in which man would engrave the first touches of his civilized career and invent the first alphabet for the arts of painting. Here the  researcher^'s interest is focused on studying appearances and heritage phenomena,and what clarifies popular heritage or adds to it , and it's one of the things that are related to the construction of the artwork, its internal   configuration, its relationship to the foundations of design, creative  processes, and the mutual impact and influence between the heritage and the artist.

 Keywords: environment, popularity, influence