Study Proposal MA Painting 2019
Work titles
- Landscape series.
Create contemporary landscape painting using a cross-culture expression: base on the idea of writing summary verse in traditional Chinese painting.
- Mental series.
Do psychological self-curing through art activities: make art in an unreadable way to express yourself with no fear.
Aim & Objectives
- The main purpose of this landscape series is to show how western and eastern culture works together and let landscape painting lost its limitation.
Introduce the Eastern culture idea of writing summary verse in painting to Western.
As long as I abstractly combine the poetry and the landscape together in a painting, the painting will no longer belong to one place. Because different people have different reactions for the same object base on their different points of view. People understand abstract landscape painting in this way according to their personal experience. They will have a different sense of reaction in their mind. In this case, the limitation of the painting is losing.
- Mental series is focusing on letting people know there is a way to do self-curing for whom is people-pleaser.
Because people-pleasers they pretend to agree with everyone, never say their truth thought. They feel responsible for how other people feel. So they are afraid to talk about themselves even they do not agree. As time goes by, they will be stoked in a self-hate emotional stage. They need to express themselves.
Create things trouble me a lot as artworks do help me treat them with a different attitude. After finishing the artwork my self-hating emotion, pressure, shame, etc will be gone. I can call that self-curing progress. Show these artworks to the public can give others a chance to understand the actual living situation about people-pleasers. Even some people might not realize they are people-pleaser or their bad emotion was caused by the identity of people-pleaser. They can learn a way to release their feeling and keep positive emotions.
Methods
- Landscape series
Go outdoors and take pictures which do attract my heart.
Depict place, sense, landscape through choosing excellent words, sentences, and poetries. Put them together as a kind of memory writing.
Reading poetries or collecting significative sentences from both Western and Eastern to express them in an abstract way.
- Mental series
Express the real thoughts through writing in an abstractive repetition way.
Hide the shame, guilt, remorse, etc which you are afraid to tell others.
Canvases are your friends and you can tell them the truth. They will keep the secret for you. Don’t be scared.
Repetition is another way of letting things go. Because the more you did the number you will feel about it.
Research & material requirements
- Landscape series
Research contemporary abstract painting and try to confirm the reason why I choose abstract landscape.
Find out the reason why traditional Chinese paintings always have summary verses behind and what is the purpose for that. How it becomes a historical habit in painting, and the value of intruding it to western culture.
- Mental series
Read books about graffiti artists and try to find out their common intention about expressive writing. Compare their idea of writing with people-pleasers' none-straightforward expressive writing. Is there any same intention existing or not.
Do research about the value of repeating and hiding in the psychological area. How the repetition pattern works psychologically.
Do online statistic research about people-pleasers' bad mood stories behind and conclude some usual causes.
References
Kusama Yayoi, Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin, Ufan Li, Louise Bourgois, Ben Nicholson
Wii be continuing.
Bibliography
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