After researching the
paintings of Bacon and Picasso in the blue period, like most of theirs, I would
like to choose sadness or unsafety to be the subject of the Photography
Project, combining two elements in their paintings – twisted brush from Bacon’s
and color blue from Picasso’s.
I tried to use
different random or organized (based on the photograph) figures with twisted blue
oil brushes to intrude the photographs by organizing some positive and negative
shapes to cover the main objects of them, and meanwhile change the original meanings. Photograph and oil color painting are
both the medium and the subject of the work, giving not a picture of creative
meaning, but some interrogative versions of meaning.
The meaning of the
collection is collaborated between viewer and me, which
is unclear or even non-existent, but waiting for viewer to find out, or waiting
for something to happen that might never happen. Just as Berger said, ‘The way
we see is affected by what we know or what we believe.’ In other words, it is pure potentiality
and the uncertainty of the future.
Under this circumstance, the title of every piece of the collection is
very important for viewer, which is the implication of covered objects, and
thus leaving them boundless fantasy.
The collection also
expresses the comparison between the photograph and oil painting. The vividness
of artificial brush is contrary to the flatness of photograph. The
intruding blue brush, as a medium of painting, as well as a medium of
communication, connects the original meaning and new meaning of
different possibilities that is created by viewer. On the
other hand, the photograph and the brush of oil painting reflect the stillness
and the movement, in which I create some different possibilities, I
think, which is the another reality.
In the metaphorical space, the viewer is the leading role of creating
different unsettled stories.
Amusement Park
Gentle Smile
Happy Old Couple
Pink Bird
Gorgeous Fresco
Summer Holiday
A Dog and Grass
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