Andrew Wyeth
1917-2009
Christina's World
1948
This is the first artist who has had a deep influence on me. I was attracted to his work when I was young. His realistic ability is very precise, depicting a thing is also very detailed, which requires a strong power of observation. This made me fall in love with realistic painting. And the other thing that I like about him is that his work is narrative.
Sometimes I think it's a movie perspective. There is no obvious subject. But the audience seems to be intimated by the author that something is happening, which makes us unconsciously imagine it ourselves.
These points have deeply influenced me in my later work creation.I also have a realistic way to create my own works.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
I study subjects related to life and death. But I'm always looking for something to portray. The initial plan was to illustrate the theme of life and death through character depiction. Then I thought of a book I had read before called "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."
One of the core elements of the book is what's called the superman doctrine, but he affirms life, he calls on us to be spiritually free, to be creators, to think about some of the big questions that we've come round and roundabout, and he's hopeful, beyond life and death. The so-called "overman", literally means "beyond the human". Zarathustra lived in seclusion in the mountains for ten years, feeling the light and light of Tailet, he would like to spread the light to the world, to call for the awakening of human beings. In his eyes, God was dead and man should be his own God, free to the fullest. This requires human beings to break all traditions, make new creations, get rid of the bondage and shackles of traditional thoughts, transcend themselves, and become "overman". In my opinion, this is the so-called "new life".
In the idea of eternal rebirth. Nietzsche firmly denied the existence of "the other shore", he wanted to pull people's eyes back to reality, back to the truth. Whereas those who believe in "the other side" long for the universe to work as they want it to, Nietzsche forces himself to understand and accept -- "affirm" -- the rules of the universe, and his idea of "eternal rebirth" is just such "the highest affirmation formula that man can achieve". People on the other side of the faith are the weak, "under the influence of weak inspiration, the weak must be timid and escape from reality", and "fear of reality, that is, fear of truth". Nietzsche, as open to truth and reality, from the theory of eternal recurrence and destruction "must die", "sure confrontation and war, and even strongly negative 'existence", certainly "the absolute and infinite repeated cycles of all things", then surely the world the meaning of survival - because people can only survive in the world, beyond all worldly things are worthless, are subjective opinion. "Everything is broken, everything is put together again;
In the sameness of being, it is forever self-constructed. All things separate, all things come together again, and the ring of existence remains true to itself forever."
So I began to have a new understanding of life and death.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
1844-1900
Hayward Gallery
On the Hayward Gallery website, I've seen a lot of great work about trees.
Works by 37 artists.
There are paintings, installations, videos.
This gave me a lot of ideas for tree creation.
Combined with the books I have seen before, I think to describe the tree.
Because I think the life of a tree is just like that of us, we have to go through all kinds of experiences.
Happy, setbacks, tribulations, sunshine, loss, and so on.
So I started writing the original manuscript.
So you can see that in the original manuscript there are people in the picture, and I wanted to connect the people with the trees to inform and convey the message to the audience.
However, I found that the characters in the picture were very discordant, so I read the works of several artists recommended to me by my teacher.
This gave me a new idea, which led me to the earlier reading of Nietzsche's philosophy of eternal reincarnation.
"Everything is broken, everything is put together again;
In the sameness of being, it is forever self-constructed.
All things separate, all things come together again, and the ring of being is forever true to itself. The tree is itself.
Blossfeldt...After Blossfeldt ‘Art Forms in Nature’, 2008
Lithograph
Paper 89.0 x 69.0 cm / Image 69.0 x 52.0 cm
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Every...Bernd and Hilla Becher Spherical Gasholder, 2008
Lithograph
Paper 68.5 x 50.0cm / Image 33.3 x 25.3cm
I am very interested in the works of Idris Khan.
What I'm interested in is the form of his work. He creates a lot of layered layers that give the impression of both abstraction and representativeness.
It seems that his work has a kind of narrative, and every time I look at his work, it gives me a sense that he is describing the history of a past.
It seems to be a fragment of memory.
Secondly, his works on the whole give me a similar feeling, such as the vague state of the works.
In general, the form of his work gave me a lot of ideas.
Turning a Tile Hill tarpaulin into something like silk’: The Living and the Dead, 2015–16. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Wilkinson Gallery, London
Author Shaw has often been asked why he works with this intractable stuff that runs like new blood and has no lusciousness, traction, or thickness, that is so difficult to move or manipulate. His answer is that enamel has no historic associations, can keep its distance from the grand tradition. But though he has remained faithful to this tough and lowly medium, despite the lure of the oil paint all around him, he takes it in new directions, achieving the blue of a Titian sky or Madonna’s cloak, turning a Tile Hill tarpaulin into something like silk.
The thinness is still there; these surfaces are hard-won. But the images have become deeper, more elegiac, and literary. In one of his far-ranging catalog essays – Shaw is an excellent writer – the artist refers to Pollaiuolo’s painting of Daphne turning into a tree, her limbs simply turning to branches, her body rooting back into the earth to which we return. This is surely his vision of trees.
Shawn's work "Come Back Nature" is very close to the idea of my work.
Everything in the world.
No matter plants, animals and minerals exist in a cycle, some call it the return of autoheat, people call it the cycle of life and death.
The author's work gives me a special feeling, his black and white effect of trees and the size give me new inspiration.
What I'm talking about is the malleability and irregularity of branches.
Just like human life is uncertain.
People's life will go through various twists and turns.
From beginning to end, it will eventually become dust, but the dust brings nourishment to the new life.
So between life and death is actually continuous experience, experience a lot of things.
That's what makes life meaningful.
Through the works of these two artists, I began to have new ideas on the subject.
More established want to remove the character, replaced by a big tree.
In my mind, trees represent people.
Then I added a bird to the picture. On the one hand, I wanted to enrich the picture, and on the other hand, I thought it was a metaphor of life.
As I said before, birds are a symbol of hope.
In the cycle of life and death, it is because there is hope that can continue to move forward.
next idea:
Now a reflection is to do the content is still insufficient, should continue to explore, first of all, this topic is very broad, need a lot of data and practice. The number of works being drawn at the same time is far from enough.
I thought I could do a series. So I'm going to continue this project in Unit2, and I'm going to do it in a precise, realistic way, and I'm going to try to do it with pencils or other materials. I want to make it bigger on the scale. This will have a kind of visual shock.