Painting : Research on self care in the process-oriented painting

• Main Authors: Ling Ling Yueh, 岳羚羚
• Other Authors: Ming Fu Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a7rwwn

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 藝術治療碩士學位學程 === 101 === This paper is an art-based research, it grounds on the 32 separate creations of process-oriented painting in 8 months during the writer’s study as a full-time intern in art therapy graduate school, and the outcome was presented as one exhibition. It is to discuss the creative meanings to spirit during art creations, and for the self care in the training courses to be a professional counseling psychologist. The conclusions of this research are: 1.The connections between art creations and intern courses experience are divided into 3 parts: (1)Emotions and pressures are released in separate creations of process-oriented painting. The pressure happened due to adjustment between full-time intern and student, and difficulties of schoolwork and life, the pressure were relaxed through the variation in mixed media. (2)The connections between art creations and intern courses experience are the paths from self-awareness to self-identification; the dialogue made to the picture helps in self-integration and self-acceptance, and leading to the balance in body, mind and spirit. (3)The picture was covered up and deformed for 31 times, each transition was an experience of letting-go, and each cover increased the depth and meaning of the picture. In this way of self-looking, self-knowing and self-accepting, the depressed feelings were relaxed, the physical fatigue was dissolved, in the end the writer is able to love herself by feeling the beauty in the picture. This is distillation, this is purification, and this is transformation. 2.The self care in process-oriented painting are divided into 2 parts: (1)In the 8 months of creation, the writer became conscious to the moment via painting, underwent personal transformation, and the experience of creation accumulated self-identification and self-acceptance. (2)Through the dialogues to the pictures, the emotions and expression were better revealed, and the self-acceptance and self-understanding were advanced. Base on the research finding and conclusions, reviews and suggestions for the future are proposed, respectively. Keywords: separate creations of process-oriented painting, self care, art creation, dialogues to the pictures, art-based research