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This thesis collects my personal exploration from the year 2013 until 2017. As for artistic creation, some people express themselves and point out their arguments and statements through it, while to me, creating arts leads me to the deeper thoughts and consideration about both everything in daily life and myself. The process of creating art works, by which I attempt to clarify myself and interpret the ideas from my mind, exactly makes me understand myself much more, as well as it helps me know the way to state my emotions and inner feelings. In some way, artistic creation means the process of figuring out who I am, yet the completion of this study defines where my art works would be in contemporary art. As Michel Foucault’s analysis of Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez (1656) in first chapter of The Order of Things (1966), he described the complex framework of visual relationship among painter, subject and viewer. He explained an episteme, which refers to way of thinking and discussed the knowledge as well as to understand the knowledge is the interplay between observer''s gaze and his representation. For example, the possibility of painter’s presence in Las Meninas can be viewed as he portrayed king and queen in the painting or he portrayed princess when viewer recognized the painter is an image of reflection. Therefore, the painter had two different representations and he can reconstructed their identity via this interpretation.
Nowadays, I do not have to paint for any royal authority, but only for myself through my observation and experiences. In the condition mentioned above and the current society with well-developed technology and abundant information, the visual information increases largely and becomes repid, which has resulted in my habits of immdiately and one-off viewing, clicking, forwarding, sharing, and responding the pieces of online information. All of the actions gradully expand to make a net building up my self-image, and they are moreover the key points of self-development and self-growth. This presents the sepcial method of recording and creating history in the modern time.
During the daily practices, I draw the simple images as a start and then create the works of my personal feelings and points of view, which form according to my surroundings and environment. Some of them come from my intuition, while some come from the influences of things on me or the embodiment of my brainstorming. I draw the pictures with mobile applications and upload them online right away, so that I can share my works with my friends, express my emotions, or even complain to recover my exhausted mind. This appears to be how I illustrate the society by digital media and social networks to creat the diary works reflecting on my daily life. This personal emotional releasing may be too trivial. However, the process of creating works still contains some meanings and make my sense of existence. Throughout my art creation and study, uploading my works does not bring any interaction, which I find should be emphasized on the social networks. Therefore, doing the study helps me develop more rational perspectives to more clearly see myself, my works, and their position in contemporary art.
This thesis with five section will 1) record my artistic creation and exploration, 2) state my thoughts of artistic creation, 3) locate my artistic creation in the contemporary art, 4) discuess the development and evolution of my artistic creation and 5) bring up the possible direction and development of my project in the future.
In the first section, I will discuss my motivation of artistic creation as well as my background in the current era. In the second section, I will record my exploration of artistic creation and explain what art materials I use in this project. In the third section, I will see my creation as a journey. People sometimes find themselves meaning by a trip. I will seek to understand myself more clearly in daily life by this journey of creation. In the fourth section, I will explain my art works and divid them to three parts. In the beginning,to utilize MS-Paint as a tool to draw my pictures. Secondly, I use the app Paper53 to create my works. Finally, I combine art works with surrounding life. In the fifth section, I will conclude my understanding of this project and elaborate the future direction of this project.
After the four years of learning experience in art in the graduate school, I acquire more comprehension of artistic creation from a beginner art lover and an intuitive art creator. In the processing of articulating my views and perspectives of this dissertation, I realize how to develop my project of multiple viewpoints and fineness.
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