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The writer was born and raised up in Keelung, which is the lobby portal of the northeast coast national scenic area of Taiwan. Being a member of this area, I lived, studied and played there; certainly I have a very deep affection toward the natural landscape and human landscape of this area around me.
The northeast coast national scenic area is an area in northeastern Taiwan with special geographical and historical distinction, ranging from Badouzi Fishing Village (Keelung city), Nanya Borough, Ruifang and Gongliao District (New Taipei city) to Toucheng Township (Yilan county). With great enthusiasm, the writer was eager to select the Northeast Coast National Scenic Area as research area, which is rich in culture, history, geography and natural resources. The rocks and sea waves in this area were therefore selected as research focus and scope for the writer’s creating artworks of Chinese landscape paintings.
After entering the graduate program, the writer has become an art creator as well as a researcher. Based on the above background and motivation, the purpose of this research was fourfold:
(1) To build a personal creative concept through the elaboration of related documents.
(2) To carry out artistic creation through creative concept and skills.
(3) To carry out self-assessment on artistic creation works through accumulation of artistic knowledge in theory and skills in practice.
(4) To explore the direction of future artistic creation works.
The research methodology adopted in this study was document analysis method and action research method. Document analysis is a method of qualitative data collection and analysis method, in which related art documents were interpreted by the writer to give voice and meaning related to the research area in order to provide references for author’s creation works. Action research is a method adopted to bring together action and reflection for the accumulation of the artistic theory and practice.
The term "aesthetic" refers to a type of phenomenal experience, called as aesthetic experience. The aesthetic experience is an action research process to create and reflect artworks. By combining the relevant artistic theory and practice, the writer consistently identified, analyzed, introspected and adjusted herself in the course of artistic action research process. Nature can inspire and produce aesthetic experiences. The writer therefore established her creative concept of “the infinite power of Nature's way” in her created ink paintings, i.e. the creative concept of “harmony between man and nature” and “the vivid artistic conception”. The artistic creation results showed that the research methodology is appropriate for using in creation works of Chinese ink painting.
This research has raised author’s enthusiastic and skills. It leads to consistent pursuit of higher level of aesthetic experience of Chinese ink painting, i.e. the introspection of the creative concept of “harmony between man and nature” and “the vivid artistic conception.” In the future research, the writer is trying to contribute her efforts to explore “the endless existence and the wonderful presence” of the Nature's way in her works.
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