Abstract

Hamburgers in Wonderland

– Expositions of Che-Wei Lin Artistic Creations

Artistic creation is the expression and manifestation of artist’s inner feelings and thoughts. The researcher symbolized fast food culture by “hamburgers”, discussing the origins, development, advantages and influence of it. Based on personal passion and eating experience of fast food, the researcher realized on a higher level how fast food has affected the eating habits of young generations, and how fast food culture has enamored and mesmerized people. Through the process of artistic creation, the researcher engaged in constant exploring and reflecting. By means of the appearance of hamburgers projecting on the mind, the researcher had a more lucid understanding of the causes of his fascination with hamburgers.

The research begins with the motives and purposes of the researcher, followed by the illustration of the methods and steps of artistic creation, and included the scope and limitations of the research. Chapter two starts with the relationship between food and life and expands to the discussion of how fast food has influenced food cultures of people nowadays and how its culture evolved. Furthermore, the researcher analyzed what food represents in terms of art history, along with the contentions of artists’ creations inspired by food, explaining the reason and progress of the researcher’s use of “hamburgers” as the motif of his artistic works. In Chapter three, the researcher elaborated and scrutinized the techniques and forms of his “hamburger” painting creations, analyzing the relationships between space, compositions, colors and shading values of a painting. Moreover, the connection of media vehicles and artistic creations is discussed. In the fourth chapter, the researcher probed into the subject meaning and creative techniques and forms, based on the four series of his works: Birth, Allurement, Taking a Bite, and Sacredness. The fifth chapter is the conclusion of this research, including the retrospection and introspection of the creation process, with the prospect of further development of this topic.

Key words: hamburgers, fast food culture