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Blue-and-white has been the most ethnic characteristic of the porcelain decoration in our country and also one of the earliest ways to invent the pottery ornament, each of which possessed its implication and symbolic meaning. The study used the imagery of totems “Butterfly Dance, Blue and White”, combining gong-bi figure paintings as the topic of the creation research in hopes of performing as forms of personal creation at the present stage through the comprehension of blue-and-white patterns as well as symbolic images in the shape of the butterfly, and constructing frames of self-creation methods.
“Butterfly Dance” injected characteristics of forms and signs as symbolic and manifesting concept of creation in the research of ink wash gong-bi figures. “Butterfly” is beautiful incarnation, an elf of Nature as well as the object that literati praised with poems. It owns qualities of “feminine” and “rhythm” in artistic expressions and meanings of decorating the topic in symbolic signs. The writer thought that blue-and-white marks and totems should be intensified as “phonetic signs” of the creation style in subject matters of female-based gong-bi figure paintings. Meanwhile, ideas were represented as the images of “Butterfly Dance” via colors of blue-and-white in combination with performances of modern ladies as styles to highlight inward emotions that could not show and revelation of personal traits in the contemporary society.
The research discourse on the painting creation was mainly divided into the following parts. First, the introduction, it included motives and purposes, contents and methods used as well as ranges and restrictions of the study. Second, the theoretical discussions of blue-and-white totems and painting creations of gong-bi figures were to look for academic foundation for the research. Third, creation ideals and implementations of “Butterfly Dance, Blue and White” integrated and recorded personal creation thoughts and enactment as the basis of creative methods. Fourth, creation analysis separate works into three series in turn to analyze and discuss respectively. Last, the conclusion, specific help would be provided in expectations that the road to self-creation would be clearer after completing the research.
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