Hello, How Are You? Dialogues between Me and the Inner Children

• Main Authors: PENG,Chiung-Yi, 彭瓊儀
• Other Authors: SU, HSIEN-FA
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yn7pb6

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 美術學系在職進修碩士班 === 102 === The thesis “Hello, How Are You? Dialogues between Me and the Inner Children in Me through Painting” presents a study on two series of acrylic paintings created by myself between 2011 and 2014. It is presented in the way of showing not only my art works but also the discourses supporting the concepts of my creation. Through producing these children’s head portraits, I explore “the affect” of myself as a painter and how my self-image is shaped in the process of creation. In addition, I try to understand the relationship between these portraits and me with the help of language: my very own commentaries therefore serve as a further interpretation to clarify the context of my creation, in which the influence of the unconscious on my creation process will be examined in the light of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s theory of “The Mirror Stage.” For me, the whole process is just like creating one self-portrait after another, I self-explored and self-analyzed—I brought a sense of “self” into being. The framework of this thesis is consisted of six chapters. “Chapter One” is the introduction: it presents the motivation, the purpose, the scope and the contents of this study work, and offers a clear definition of the term “inner children.” “Chapter Two: the Theoretical Foundation” explains how the unconscious influences my creation process by taking Jacques Lacan’s theory on “The Mirror Stage” as the basis to examine the relationship between “the conscious self” and “the unconscious self.” “Chapter Three: My Concepts of Creation & the Practice in the Current Field” introduces various children’s head portraits produced by other contemporary artists, and by which I elaborate the concepts of my own creation. “Chapter Four: the Contents, the Form, the Materials and the Techniques” offers individual description of how these elements are applied to my creation process. “Chapter Five: My Art Works” includes two series of children’s head portraits and my own commentaries. The last, “Chapter Six” concludes the thesis with my personal reflections on these current works as well as my vision of future development.