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The two concrete objectives of the study include: (I) to probe into the context and source of moving and variation and ideas related to the aesthetics of variation; (II) to experiment and create with multiple methods in the author's three series of ink paintings on the theme of moving and variation. The works of the study were created between 2014 and 2017, and they formally include the depiction and moving of characters whose faces are simplified or transformed and space-time motion. Additionally, they integrate cubism and surrealism and use block segmentation and deformation and misplacement to place her works between concrete and semi-concrete. The three series of the author’s creations include: (I) motion series—a total of six works in this series show movers that do not stop moving in space-time through philosophical thought in Book of Changes with variable and changeable divinatory symbols and colors representing five elements. (II) person and object series—a total of five works in this series blend Oriental and western artistic nutrients and transform them. Additionally, the methods of misplacement, moving, restructuring and segmentation are used to manifest the transfer and change of time, space and mental states with various symbols. (III) imperial book series—a total of six works in this series focus on the Chinese zodiac and express the idea of free thought with blank and concave-convex codes following the overlapping of kneading, papermaking and coloring.
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The accumulation of experience in this creation improved the author’s concepts as in the following three aspects: (I) as long as there is new thought, both old and new tools do not impede the development of creation, (II) from the level of “spirit of creation,” she can distinguish the styles and features of modern ink painting from those of traditional ink painting; (III) the first requirement of the expression of art is one’s inner thought, not merely practiced skills.
Keywords: moving, variation, modern art.
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