| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺南藝術學院 === 藝術史與藝術評論研究所 === 92 === In the solo exhibition “Happenstance and Coincidence” of the year 2003, we saw the artist J.C. Kuo, who has inherited and adopted the painting style of verbalization and semiotization since the mid 1980’s. Through the poetic theory of tropology, the artist has not only used the irony trope of icon semantics but also questioned the stable structure and accordance between icons/texts and icons/ semantics. J.C. Kuo’s artistic expressions mentioned above, along with his art works, have reflected the main metalanguage model in contemporary Taiwan art world as an irony trope. By analyzing the art works, the field of forces where irony épistème contends with synecdoche épistème, will be revealed as well.
As the special characteristics of the art works that we have referred to, the exhibition “Happenstance and Coincidence”, having strong realistic and social nature, can be regarded as a consequential product under the artist’s penetrative detection, along with the atmosphere of certain specific time and space. Further more, the artist’s rhetoric skills of art creation, such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony tropes, have made both outer appearance and deeper semantic presentation of the paintings fulfilled with energy of imagination and tension. A certain kind of rare, specific quality and an esthetic test are testified no doubt in these art works .
In terms of the art world nowadays congested with art works so literal, boring, and lacking in the intention for communication with the audience and the interests toward them, the purpose of the thesis is tend to emphasize that the skills of rhetoric should be the most indispensable conditions during the process of art creation.
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