A master's thesis in the College of Fine Arts at Basra University discussed representations of ruin in contemporary Iraqi formation. The thesis presented by researcher Hayan Zayer Resan contains four chapters. The first chapter contains the research problem, its importance, the need for it, and its aim. While the second chapter contained three sections .. including the forms of ruin in the scientific achievement from the classical period through the period of modernity. As for the second topic, it dealt with the most important cultural and social forms that the Iraqi artist witnessed, which were represented by historical, political, religious, social and economic obstacles. While the third topic dealt with the founding stages and the development of the contemporary plastic movement in Iraq from the beginning of the 1930s to the present day. As for the third chapter, his research community included a group of artistic accomplishments that had a two-dimensional or three-dimensional surface, where the artist used waste and consumable goods and changed their functional role and turned into a tool with an aesthetic function. The fourth chapter includes the results of sample analysis, conclusions and recommendations regarding the term ruin in the Iraqi formation, whether it is technical, environmental, social, political, or economic. The research aims to uncover the problem of ruin in the contemporary Iraqi formation and to reach the results. The researcher chose the sample intentionally. The research concluded that the technical achievement is characterized by greater diversity through employing consumer vocabulary and raw materials, which are intended to express the negatives and concerns of the social situation in an epistemological, artistic and aesthetic framework of knowledge and in the manner of symbols and connotations. The message recommended .. that the Iraqi plastic artist was among the pioneers to use various techniques, trash and waste, and to convey the image of ruin and turn it into an aesthetic and artistic tool.