النخلة مصدراً للرؤية في التصوير التشكيلي السعودي

The elements that surround the artist in his local environment is one of the important components that formed the art painting, the palm tree has an important value and eminent place in the Saudi environment, led to its presence in the Saudi Art as one of the vision sources with its aesthetic and symbolic connotations in the artistic expression. The research aimed to track the palm tree depiction in the Saudi painting, and highlight its meanings, and the artistic methods to utilize the palm tree in art painting and that’s by several aspects: the shape, the symbolism and the expressive side. The research outcome shows the depiction of palm tree started with the beginning of the Saudi Art with its pioneers, and it is still had eminent place as a distinguished visual element in the current Saudi painting, that indicates the Saudi artist awareness to the visual and symbolism values of the palm tree as it considered one of Saudi visual culture component, he painted it with a realistic style, reformulate it with different symbolisms and images in his artworks that goes beyond the direct image of the palm tree into visions that hold meanings and symbolisms that are attached to the artist feelings to express his identity, heritage, habits and traditions in paintings that have a sense of authenticity in a contemporary way.