The topic of this essay is “Impression． The Moment – A Study of Wang, Yi-Wen’s Paintings”. Painting is an ongoing conversation between the artist and the soul. In the earlier stage of an artist, painting is merely a medium which records the daily life experiences, and replaces the use of diary for capturing the beautiful moments when traveling. With long-term, accumulated sketch experiences and the inspired painting techniques obtained from constant practices, artists tend to discover such painting creation can no longer satisfy the needs of their souls and further realize solely utilizing the representation of the nature is not the essence of art. Inspired by the professors in graduate school, the author realizes that the representation of the nature is not the only form of presentation and the artworks remain formulaic and superficial without the spiritual touch of the moment.
Structure of the Essay:
Chapter 1 Introduction: Literature review and data analysis are utilized to explain research motives to clarify the myth of the essence of painting. Related image data are systematically compiled to achieve the fulfillment of theory and creation with the assistance of sketching and nature observation.
Chapter 2: In the premise of how Eastern and Western artists perceive the nature then and there when they immerse themselves in the nature, the author explores how artists interpret Eastern and Western aesthetics, studies how artists transform their feelings and impression of the moment into their own unique painting languages, and further explores the different artistic features and styles in some artists’ early and later years with a purpose of helping the author to review the possibility of integrating theory and creation.
Chapter 3: Analyzing the Creation and Theory of this Study. This study includes three aspects of artists, from classic to contemporary co-construction, the interaction of intuition and cognition, and self-creation philosophy.
Chapter 4: Analyzing Creation Media, Technique Study and Process and Explaining Essay Creation Materials and Forms.
Chapter 5: A Combined Presentation of Fulfilled Creation and Philosophy. The artwork analysis and interpretation are divided into three series: (1) Natural presentation series, conducting theoretical in-depth discussion and analysis before experimenting from nature representation to presentation. (2) Flower image series and (3) Text image series, implying the profound implications of objects through semiology. The drawing, text and theoretical assistance can generally express the mutual support and formation of the author’s creation and theories.
Chapter 6: The Analysis of Takeaway of this Study. The author hopes to use the conclusions from this study to cross and breakthrough the accustomed ways of thinking and define his/her position, and further develop his/her own artistic languages and styles.