| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 美術學系碩士班創作組 === 102 === This thesis is to discuss the perception of art to discuss the issue of “identity”. Through the discussion on the personal memories in figuring out the identity value, also by the series of artworks to dissect these connections in above mentioned issues. Because of the injustice situation occurred at homeland to lead a scene of the citizen leaving their country to make the improvement on them in other countries.
Narrating an alien artist’s artworks in a strange land through the format of content, subject matters, colors, and review of the contrasting new and traditional ideas. The artworks emphasize the issues of diaspora concept, mention that the progress of a vagabond in a forcing status to leave their country. Also expression of the tense relationship between the society and personal living space creates an alternative thinking value.
Writer plans to express in works of nostalgic, interpret the diaspora concept via printmaking. The artworks are connecting to the issues that the way of thinking from a changing hometown to a strange land, and re-judgment of the diaspora scene in the new generation nowadays. All the thoughts here is trying to get the target on identity of “personality”, “home” and “races”, and connecting the audience through the artworks. Finally, it will figure out the future direction of the art making within the same ideas.
The thesis starts by using the “objects” in Yow family as the starting point to interpret the personal “identity” idea. At the same time, re-finding out the “identity ”on the “Yow Objects”, through the reconstruction and existence status in the Yow Family.
The first chapter is discussing how to get the “identity” consciousness in a multiple cultures and races country. For a special case in this thesis, the writer is Chinese Malaysian holding the Malaysia identity card, but he still doesn’t have the similar resources from the government compare with other “righteous” races in Malaysia. Because of the unjust treatments, he rises up the “identity” awareness of culture and races in the society. The research target has setup towards to writer is identity issue, and starts from the personal characteristics, like the color skin of the races, and other social hierarchical discussion.
On the other hand, the discussion on the “identity” issue are emphasize in the perception categories of “human/individual”, “objects”, and “environment”. Through the analysis of them, takes the personal memories as a considering tool to review the family history for reaching the “identity”. The writer recalls the stories of his family, and the stories become the witnesses in his family history. In his “memories” discussion, tries to clarify the relationship of those perception categories mentioned above.
The techniques of printmaking become the way of expression to reach the “identity” issue in this thesis, and the subject matter in the artworks all are related with the writer “family memories”. Besides, the color, content, composition using on the artworks are all trying to hit the target of clarifying “identity” too. These experiences will keep on making creation intention clearer in the future.
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