24 Apr 2012

Photography Project


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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