| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 美術學系 === 96 === The Chinese paintings always emphasize on spiritual expression and seldom talk about the form. Regarding the scholar-artist style of painting, Chen Hengke thinks that “the scholar-style painting firstly emphasizes on spirit, not on form. Therefore, this kind of painting is short of shape and those having elegant spirit could still be regarded as scholar-style paintings.” However, the existence of substance and subject must be expressed in a certain shape and appearance after all. The form is the appearance of a substance through which conveys the author’s viewpoints and thoughts. Artistic creation is the sentimental form on one hand and is the rational expression one another hand. Besides, form creation is principally for expressing conception. What is conception? It is just common contents. What the artists have felt, touched, experienced between natural reality and human’s world, and the supreme conception that artists have obtained from their thoughts and research, all of these have composed the soul and purport of artworks, even though they are the abstractive results. This is nothing more than the conception which is also the common principle distilled from natural reality and human’s world.
Prof. Read has said in his book 《A Concise History of Modern Painting》: “An artwork is a structure composed by the concrete factors of form and colors. The form and colors become rich in expression capability through synthetical arrangement. The form of an artwork is the content itself. Any expression capability of an artwork derives from the form.” All artworks are the integration of content and form and all artworks’ content is the result integrating subject and object.
The form is a way to exist for the content of an artwork, including the internal structure combined with the appearance of image. The content becomes so, just because it has the form. If there is no relative specific form, it would be impossible to represent any particular content. On the contrary, the artistic form could not exist independently; even an extremely abstractive form has its own content. The content could be a thought or a sensation and could also be precise or paradoxical. Only if has it (the content) its own expression, even though the mental condition that is hard to describe could still be a kind of content concealed behind artistic form.
The origin of all artworks can be said to derive from the experience of artistic life. Under the common principle, the works connect with a visible and colored object. The emotions and feelings must derive from all that one saw and heard, to be moved and therefore create images (intelligence). Furthermore, inspirations come and selections appear, and then the will orders to execute, therefore the works come into being. If none of outside things has been experienced, no creation could be done.
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