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Abstract
The Disappearing Archetype of Life --The Analysis of Oil Paintings by Yi-Zhong Gu
The thesis reflects on the meanings of humanity, life value, and self existence; discusses the perception of life cycle and value transformation. Through the shapes of loofahs and citruses, he expresses the views of life and obtains the salvation by means of finding his own feelings of creative art works. The characteristic of the art works is to portray his feelings through the ways of concrete representation. The inspiration originates from the metaphysics, surrealism, besides the modern artists to contemporaries, As regards the form of the paintings, he endeavors to use the conception of the Orient “Chan”, meditation, to reinforce the loneliness and to expound the new explanation of still life paintings. The achievement of this is to discover the subconscious and to create distinctive vocabulary, by means of facing his past; to cull, define and frame from the objects, he develops his creative style, through the diversities of hues and the fun of skin textures; attempts to refine his own oil painting skills and to manifest his speciality so as to create his self style. Key words: Chan, symbol, surrealism, self existence
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