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Summary Putting subjective “thoughts” into artwork can lead to significant extended effects. By adding subjective thoughts, one “image” may conjure up another, “shifting” unique thoughts and emotions and linking them with objects, not unlike what we know as “empathy” in modern Western art studies. Only through deep understanding and a rich imagination can we allow “shifting subjective thoughts onto an objective target” to arrive at a point where subjectivity and objectivity are as one, achieving a “lifelike” feel. In reality, “Shifting subjective thoughts onto an objective target to achieve a lifelike feel” consists of how to first use figurative thinking in painting creations. In other words, this is the “perception” issue when “painting” an artwork. This issue has much to do with an artist’s learning achievements - the higher the level of learning, the greater the level of realization, which makes it easier to reach an enlightened state of “shifting subjective thoughts onto an objective target”. This results in a “lifelike feeling”. In the process of creating art, inward contemplations arise as an effect. The ability to apply and expand learned theory into works of art improves the cultural accumulation within a work. In this way, the works fluidly portray “shifting subjective thoughts onto an objective target”, achieving “a lifelike feel”, “empathy”, and "haziness” 1 while drawing from the strengths of both Eastern and Western painting. As a result, a unique, personal style is developed. Borrowing from empathetic concepts, experiencing through one’s different targets of perception, and using creative works to symbolize wisdom in life reduce the level of self amongst the haziness to serve as a portrayal of life and the art of living. Moreover, life is an activity, and such activities are the embodiment of a “living self-consciousness”.2
“Shifting subjective thoughts onto an objective target to achieve a lifelike feel”, “empathy”, “haziness”
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