Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Their Approaching to the Art of Superrealism

Abstract

The study aims to identify Maslow's concept of needs and its approaches to the art of Superrealism. As for the limits of the research, it was determined by studying Maslow's concept of needs and its approaches with the products of Superrealism art in America and Europe for the period from 1967 to 2005. The study adopted the descriptive approach by using a content analysis method to analyze the research sample to reach the achievement of its objectives. The research sample was chosen by the intentional method and its number was three models, and from the results of the study: the adoption of the Superrealism mechanism of perception in the transfer of reality with all its particles as the main source for finding the places of beauty inherent in it in a way that the eye or the photograph cannot capture by employing drawings and photographs in an organized building, and this is what artistic currents, including realism, are not familiar with. As for the most prominent conclusions, the approach of Superrealism to Maslow's concept of needs in its reliance on sensory perceptions and the representation of the real world. The artist man cannot reach self-realization, knowledge and beauty except after satisfying his basic material and moral needs with all their particles. Superrealism represented a picture of the world of consumption, the labor market, and production, which directed art towards commercial advertisements and media that stimulate the senses and document the link with what is superficial and not essential, and this approaches Maslow's interests by trying to satisfy the psychological, physiological, economic, social and political needs as they represent the basic needs of the human being and without satisfying them he cannot keep alive.