Transition of Arabic poetry from linguistic composition to letterforms in Khaled Al-Saei’s murals

Literature is linked to other arts with several links, granting and taking.  Drawing with poetry is one of those links. In view of these data, the study discusses the transformations that affect the poetic text when it moves from the linguistic composition to the letter formation in the murals of the letter artist Khaled Al-Saei, in particular, and what can be gained or lost in this transformation, and what it does in building bridges between the two arts: literature and plastic painting. For the sake of ultimate benefit, the study is devoted to three murals, containing poetic texts, various in theme, style, and system of composition. The "Eye Mural" includes verses from different poems on the subject of "the eye", while the mural "Wolves of Al-Shanfari" includes verses that are taken from the Arabs’ Lameya (a poem in which the rhyme scheme ends in the letter “L” in Arabic) of Al-Shanfari, while the "Peace" mural depicts verses from Mahmoud Darwish's Sonata VI. In general, the study seeks to examine the aesthetic values in the poetic text and their transformations in the letter formation, and the role of the recipient in appreciating those values in the two forms. To achieve this intended goal, we have taken “aesthetic criticism” and “reception theory” as two approaches to examine the work in its verbal and plastic forms, to extract aesthetic values in it, and then trace the effects of all of that on the awareness of the recipient and his/her artistic taste.