About the Pregnancy：Man－Ching Chen’s Neo－Expressionism

• Main Authors: Man-ching Chen, 陳曼菁
• Other Authors: 陳朝興
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95170927917144886424

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 造形藝術學系碩士在職專班 === 94 === ABSTRACT Life is so profound that we cannot describe it with words. Pregnancy, the continuity of life, is the task that a woman accomplishes with great strength and courage. It is not only delightful but also toilsome during the natural and noble pregnancy process：　some women never felt discomforts in the process while the others underwent different tortures such as infecundity, artificial insemination, vomiting during pregnancy, a venous aneurysm, bleeding, pregnancy following a heart attack, an abortion, a difficult delivery, hysterorrhexis and even death. It is joyful for a mother to give birth a healthy baby after ten-month pregnancy; nevertheless, the families will sigh and sob if they suffer the lost of a baby and mother in the meantime. A Taiwanese verb ” If the childbirth goes smoothly, the mother will be carefully served tonic﹔if not, the King Of Hell is waiting for her . ” can best describe the danger of a childbirth. First, the research will discuss the women’s physiological phenomena of pregnancy. Second, it will criticize the traditional concept-men are more important than women, and women’s anxieties brought about by it. Finally, it will call upon that women should decide on their own generate with more self-consciousness. In the creative part, the researcher will show the pressure of having a son to carry on the family name imposed upon a modern woman by oil painting. The researcher’s painful, sorrowful and even hopeless process of pregnancy will be expressed by Neo-expressionism. Besides, the researcher want to express her respect to all esteemed mothers and hope the children will understand their mothers’ pain of childbirth. Last but not the least, she expects to cure herself and cease paining through the artistic creations. Key words: pregnancy、Postmodern feminism、Neo-expressionism