top of page

For the Degree Show:

Recording

For the content expressed by the work, I always deem that the reasons for writing works should be very clear-cut, and the works will directly manifest the most straightforward idea in author's heart. If my work succeeds in bringing the viewer into the emotions I express, it will be the greatest achievement for me.

As far as I am concerned, I was quite unconfident about myself, which may due to the fact that I was very fat in my childhood. Therefore, I would always pay attention to other people's thoughts. When I try to become a nice, friendly and humorous person, I often guess others’ impression of me, such as friends, classmates and teachers, and at every moment I am worried that their opinions of me will change into bad. Perhaps just because of self-abasement, I always think from someone else's point, so that I can consider things from a more objective point. From someone else's point of view, I see a different world. In this world, people vary from one to one; they have completely different way of thinking, behavior, or even entirely unlike purpose of doing things. Possibly in our view, everyone is almost the same, and they are friendly, but this is only surface phenomena. A load of people look nice, kind and even generous, but they use highly hypocritical acts to deceive and mislead others, so as to achieve a completely different purpose by fair means or foul perhaps for their own purpose and interests or just to make fun of others. And some people seem very difficult to close, in fact, they maybe just protect themselves. And I intend to display the real sides of different people, let people know that the world is not as simple as it looks like, people will often have another side behind themselves which is difficult to find. The reason why I create this work is to make everyone understand that we are different individuals, and different people will have a completely different approach and purpose, then we cannot take it for grant that others are as simple and kind as we are. We can be a simple person, but in the face of these different complex societies, protect yourself is the most important. What I want most is that the dark side I painted is only sealed in my picture rather than trouble the people who live in good hopes.

 

 

 

Some of the artist's works are the artist's inner world, the most intuitive image. I also hope my work can represent my own unique character and thought. Heronymus Bosch was a prolific Dutch painter in the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries. Most of his paintings depict sin and sinking of human morality. His paintings are his deep insight into the dark side of human society, and it is easy to see the social chaos and darkness at that time, his inner pessimism, strong religious beliefs, as if he had a strong dissatisfaction on the chaotic and dark world, and he was unable to change but only use the way of attacking the world to find a trace of repentance for God. For Bosch's work "The Garden of Earthly Delights", which depicts a group of strange people indulge in the joy in a fairyland country. I can really feel his inner feelings, and as if I am personally in the society at that time. Such a bustling scene will make people cannot control their worry, the people around are comfortably looking for pleasure, the people in the distance are also amusing each other, the distant buildings are extremely luxurious and beautiful, it is easy to think of the hellish world on the right directly indicates the consequences of extravagant pleasure. I like Bosch's works, because his works always have highly fine details, a variety of characters, each different figure contains a different character and story, every item has a different meaning, giving a very advanced, mysterious feeling with a deep individualism; Similarly, Jake Dinos Chapman's work "the sum of all evil" also has a strong individualism color. Their purpose of the creation is to fight the concept that 'art is beautiful and derived from the idealism'. The entire work takes Ronald McDonald and Nazi soldiers as the main bodies, which seem to directly and intuitively express the two artists' idea on 'how we should or we can express our own moral point of view', selects the characters with high resistance and cultural dislocation, uses strong contrast, exquisite detail and the huge number to satirize a phenomenon in capitalism that the insatiable commercial brands violently pillage the uncivilized countries’ economy, culture and territory, causing indelible historical scars. Perhaps their works express their highly negative ideas, but there is no doubt that they are very successful to bring the audience into the emotions they want to express. My former teacher Mi had said that 'no matter what people do, as long as they do it to an extreme, they can achieve success', I think in the field of art, this sentence seems to be completely correct. So in my work, I have been looking for the best way to express my thoughts.

For my works, I have been devoted myself to using drawing and painting to express human nature, through the absurd pictures to show the real feelings or social reality, many artists, such as David Shrigley and Raymond Pettibon, use abstract absurd images to express their own unique views, inject wisdom into the daily life with accurate observation. In my life, I vigilantly observe the relationship between people. In many cases, they are very complex, small to people and people, large to groups and groups, countries and countries. The purpose of things they do always do not look the same as the surface, they will not meet with each other by the most real side, on the contrary, in the heart, they have different ideas and purposes. For these different ideas and purposes, I do not think they are wrong, and this gap between interior and exterior reflects not only the complexity and unpredictability of the human world, but also the great differences between childhood and adult world. From the picture, the original works similar to cartoon line drawing are no longer the childhood books for children reading.

For different forms of expression, I like David Shrigley's work "New Friends", which tells a minute’s story with a ‘white paper, black line’ abstract animation, seemingly simple and lovely cartoon image causes one to think deeply about. One of the squares falls from the square array into a group of seemingly lively and jubilant roundness array, the square wants to join them and it cruelly force itself into the same round. In order to get happiness, you must pay some price, and this price may be part of your body. Such a small story can make me think a lot, let me think about the relationship between the group and the individual, the individual is independent, but also exists between the groups. So I painted a load of drawings to analyze the individual itself and try to find a link directly produced between different individuals.

In the style of painting, I have worshiped MC. Escher's works since early period, his charm lies in non-geometric worlds one by one created by the use of fine writing style and strict space logic, and even combine different dimensional worlds, so as to convince the viewers. I appreciate his works; the fantastic different dimensional space depicted in his works show his strong sensory ability to space. Under his influence, I will be very sensible to deal with spatial relations and details in the paintings. It can be seen that in his early work "Tower of Babel" (1928 woodcut by MC Escher) .

 

Some of the details of the small building on the ground will appear some errors in the geometric perspective, but there are no any geometric perspective errors in his later non-geometric works. I have great admiration for his powerful sense of space and logical thinking ability, so that he can use this ability to create these exquisite works.

In terms of the understanding of lines, in addition to the copy and reading of George Bridgman's book "Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life" in the college, I am also affected by a book "Kim Jung Gi - Sketchbook 2013 " in the library, the works of these two artists tend to the traditional sketches, which use traditional paintings and lines to describe the human body and the scene and picture composed by the people. I really like their accurate lines and shapes: The power contained in the kind of lines can express the shape and direction of the whole body structure simply by the lines, these delicate lines remind me of the Chinese line drawing of claborate-style painting. I had learn this in the childhood, and very worshiped and envied this fine and smooth claborate-style painting, I hope you can use the brush to draw that fine lines;

 

 

 

 

 

For the precision of the shape, especially Kim Jung Gi’s works, his composition layout often uses the composition of the fisheye effect, very accurate, and having shocking visual impact. I really like the flexible lines of Kim Jung Gi, and my work precisely uses as delicate lines as possible, what different is that I do not want to add any color or shadow, because what I want to describe is the intrinsic nature of people. I think this is different from the appearance, and color and shadow are not in the inner world of people. (Because there is no light, there will be no color and shadow)

And for my own works, I formed my own unique style, which uses precise lines to express accurate things modeling and precise geometric spatial structure. I like fineness and preciseness, but do not like to use computers or rulers, because the use of these tools will make the work lose vitality, I like to use 0.3’ pencils and various fineness of the Micro pigment ink pen to ensure the lines’ vividness and meticulosity. Perhaps it is related to my childhood learning experience of Chinese line drawing techniques, I am very fond of the lines of traditional Chinese claborate-style painting, which is rigorous, smooth and delicate, but the drawing process cannot stop with brush and ink, which is quite difficult for operation; And what I do not like is that the things depicted in traditional Chinese paintings are very boring for me, such as lotus, chrysanthemum, a variety of flowers and very few animals and people wearing traditional costumes. So in my works, I just added the meticulous Chinese line drawing skills, used this very beautiful and traditional techniques to express new things. In my opinion, it is also a lovely innovation. Of course, the material I used is not brush and ink, instead, I used more accurate Micro pigment ink pen to pursue the perfect effect. Although in the view of the traditional Chinese painting master, it seems that it may have no relationship with Chinese painting, I just used my favorite lines in traditional Chinese painting, and I think this is actually enough.

In terms of modeling, I designed various images to express different character or existential state of different people or groups, and these shapes are designed based on the relationship between people and social. On the whole, there are different groups and the individual in the huge picture; the overall images include not only highly abstract anthropomorphic modeling, but also very concrete and complex character modeling. They respectively represent different groups or societies, the difference between them is huge, although there will be mutual intersection or even fusion, the inherent attributes are completely different; In the huge human society, too small and ordinary human individual is difficult to distinguish, and their quantity is so large that cannot be ignored, people can note things done by them together, but the results vary by the different ways of cooperation. Therefore, the picture appears a lot of objects formed by the small figure, but they are showing completely different states.

In terms of size, I gave up the previous small size, and changed it into wall size to paint my work, and I'm using 21 pieces of A1 size cardboard papers to form a wall size work. In the course, each A1 are separated by 10mm distance, so that I can also show my personal points. The individual in the world is independent, but all the organisation and society are also composed of different individuals and for each of 21 papers, it can become a separate work, which makes them also have different characteristics.

Paul Noble is the bookies favourite to win the turner prize,contemporary arts miss word is being nomaniated for his drawings of knobs in newtown an imaginary town peopled by strange poo ships. He created a lot of large-scale landscape, huge pencil drawings bring people a strong visual impact, huge size and precise details make people feel like being in the Paul garden, this strong effect is very attractive, which further inspires me to try to draw large-scale works, because the impact brought about by this black and white, large size, exquisite detail is easier for the viewer to think about the world described in the work. Nobson is a new world of his fantasy creation, the world's people are the shape of the poo, his created world seems boring, but all the details and scenes are revealed in the huge paper meticulously. In my opinion, this kind of work is extremely touching, because these large and delicate cities can strongly show the author's character and hope. Sometimes, the success of such a work is whether it can definitely bring you into the author's inner world. This way is also the way I created works, I hope people’s approval on my works is that they can read what I want to express and my personal feelings, such works for me is a more real works, because in my opinion, depicting a thing that I do not understand is quite difficult to be objective, but for my own heart, I think I can understand it with full confidence.

bottom of page