The topic of this thesis is “emotions captured in art—Shueinan hole﹒Chinkuashih﹒Jiufen area—the landscape of humanity and natural in Chinese classical brush painting” .

This study manily bases on the nature and humanity at the areas of Shueinan hole, Jinguashih and Jioufen, Ruifang Dist., New Taipei City, The auther searches the emotional appeal and inspirational objects for the article creation from these areas.

Shueinan hole, Jinguashih and Jioufen were famous for their goldmines, then known as “The small Shanghai”. The geography is rugged and steep, the black felt roofs cover with thick overlap one to another, and stone steps stretch for as far as the eyes will allow, all of them are the features of the towns. In these areas, the mine culture is the most important nostalgic theme because of producing gold. For instance, the Gold Museum, which displayed many kinds of historical relic that sufficiently attested the former grandeur of the places. And such as animals, plants, rivers and waterfalls .The towns are rich in nature ecosystems also for artistic creation.

As time goes by, the towns change, facing with challenges of long-term gold- industry decline, and increasing migrated population rate. For these reasons, the areas once were too desolate to forgotten, and eventually became “a city of sadness”, the movie which directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. Recently, these towns have been returned to its former glory because of movies that made tourism development, and bringing many of artists to come here for setting up studio. In the mind of many travellers, they wish this place will be preserved and won’t be overdeveloped, keeping the face of these areas as usual.

Although observing and imitating nature are the best ways for artist to create masterpieces, but how to integrate the personal creative idea into theory that is a long-term goal for author. In order to break through an obstacle of creation, such as art psychology, art anthropology, semiotic and iconography were adopted in this study. Not only ananlyze the techniques from tradition-modernity- chinese-western, but also absorb the experiences from the ancient people, and use “metaphor” technique and “nostalgia”visual-concept were used in this study.

The study consists of three series of “describing scenes with feelings”, “describing objects with feelings”and “nostalgia”. It is primarily prsented by “landcapes”, “flowers and birds” and “figures”which enrich author’s expression of emotion to Shueinan hole , Jinguashih and Jioufen areas.