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This thesis approaches the production series Garden in the Room and Party from a subjective perspective. The aim is to examine the psychological nuances underneath the range of images concerning this author's own experience of the pressure brought about by a competitive education system and use paintings to narrate a suppressive and unescapable struggle caused by social pressure. The transformation of such experience onto the canvass is akin to a process of collecting and reorienting oneself. This thesis utilizes memories and human imagery to recall personal past experiences and scenes of dialogues with oneself and manipulates personal or spatial metaphors to identify the subjective and suppressed feelings of everyday life.
This thesis is in five chapters. The first chapter includes the introduction, the research motive, research aims, scope and limitations, research method and terminologies. The second chapter discusses the theoretical basis of this thesis, including four sections. The first section is a discussion on the consciousness and framework of the self-using Freudian and Lacanian analyses. The second and third sections discuss how artists use stylistic expressions to engage with the concepts of "the coexistence of the self and the other" and "the self and the alien self," and how they relate to ones' creative process. The fourth section, titled "the feminine aura in media creation of the east," discusses how water ink artists use three perspectives to interpret feminine qualities that resonate with feminist concepts. Chapter three offers an analysis of the creative process and creative interpretation. The first section titled "memory and the self" explores the past events of the author's childhood and school experiences, which is a continuous, evolving personal adaptation to everyday life, and uses the creation of imagery to achieve a self-regulating and adjustment effect through the revisitation of events past. The second section titled "contemplation of imagery in personal creation" attempts to create an emanative effect through image transferring methods in the artistic repertoire such as ambiguity. The third chapter titled "the perception of a red mental image" describes the understanding of life and the association with scarlet colored wounds. The fourth chapter is a description of the work, divided into two sections: "the garden in the room" and "the party," and how the creator interpreted the two series of works. The fifth chapter is the conclusion, which summarizes the results of the creation and the future course of development. Keywords: continuity; circumstance, feminine quality; esoteric, writing on the body
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