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Any artistic creation is bound to meet challenges of innovation. It intends to offer new insights, new point of views and new findings to the past conclusions. It always attempts to give new options to a different era. An innovative research with creative thinking explores new territory, but not ‘fashionable’ against reality. The aesthetic quest of figure paintings demands scrutiny from cultural and traditional aspects. It goes deep into the traditional, embracing various medias and techniques to express the times and contribute to the multiple styles of contemporary figure paintings. The study aims to look into the traditional composition of Chinese painting, to explore the various possibilities in artistic creation by adapting oriental medias into figure painting. The framework of this study is: (1) inquiry of the composition of Chinese painting, (2) the concept and practice of figure painting and (3) the interpretation of the researcher’s works. The study is to assert the researcher’s objectives in artistic creation by practice and theoretical analysis. It is based on the researcher’s figure paintings from 2003 to 2007. The purpose and motivation of the research, the research content and the research area as well as the relation between the research and the artistic creation are stated in the Introduction. Chapter 2 contains the inquiry of the composition of Chinese painting. By examining the Chinese painting composition theory to explore its regular patterns and laws. The concept and practice of artistic creation are in chapter 3. The focus is the spatial composition, visual psychology and the artistic conceptions in figure painting. It also treats the relation of imitate, sketch and creation of figures. The spatial composition is the main issue. It involves the psychological, aesthetic, perspective, chromatic and creation theories in painting. Innovation is the re-discovery on the accumulated foundation. It is the successors’ continuing request of the predecessors. The profundity, depth and the dynamics of traditional Chinese painting are far from reaching a common view with the contemporary art, while new styles of composition are built upon the inheritance and innovation of traditional composition formation. It is obvious that only by learning from the traditional disciplines and patterns, can the new life – innovation, be found. Life experiences conceive the researcher’s paintings and the paintings express the visual art through a media of flat surface creation. It is quite clear that sustained learning and study to the practice of theories are demanded however the limitation of times and visual experience are. How to accumulate and to express in artistic creations is the future direction to endeavor to.
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