Self-Actualization of Female Artist﹕ A Study of Liu I-Lan’s Paintings and Narratives

• Main Authors: Ying -Chi Lin, 林殷齊
• Other Authors: Cai-Wei Wang
• Format: Others
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kt925r

博士 === 國立東華大學 === 課程設計與潛能開發學系 === 103 === Abstract This thesis aims to understand the artist’s life experience, personal reflection, and creative works. This study presents the self-actualization of a female artist, Through the Liu I-Lan's paintings and narratives, this study, including the transformation of the meaning of self-exploration and painting before and after transformation. By paintings and narratives of Liu I-Lan, this study introduces a female artist’s self- actualization, including exploration of self-significance and change after painting. By I-Lan’s self-narrative, we realize that her painting subjects are based on herself. For instance, be a woman, be a daughter-in-law and be a mother. It demonstrate her personal female identification, and from self-identity of expansion to the East cultural identity. Even the aftermath of adversity life processes, such as the face of her parents leaves and death in childhood. She must be self-reliant, cannot continue to study. After her marriage, she lived no self-day, but the feeling of inferiority in their work, as well as long-term anxiety panic disorder, faced physical and mental suffering makes. I-Lan has produced positive thinking through reading and painting, accept the existence of adversity, increase the capacity of self-transformation, putting her own considered important or interesting, stay focused on painting, participating in solo or group exhibitions, producing a sense of accomplishment. In other words, when exploring self-value, I-Lan attempts to find the possibility of obstacles of daily lives. She integrates her life experience in artistic creation and includes life experience in universal physical experience to pay attention to life, social and cultural issues. From a perspective of art, she depicts human existence in the time and the world, particularly females’ general life experience. I-Lan passion in art significantly changes herself. When she seeks for the identification, she relies on art to construct new ego and transform life environment. Self-creation triggers the development of her thinking value. It demonstrates her desire for the new meaning system because of personal life experience. For her, the value of artistic practice can inspire inner self and influence self-identification. The artistic force allows I-Lan to return to self. By reflection on life pattern, she realizes the insufficiency and decides to improve herself. She treats art as a religion and base of self- actualization. I-Lan transformed into her mission from her own growth, but also because she has the courage to challenge the strong personality. She has innate creativity, she loved art, but also through the artistic challenge herself and, therefore, achieve success. Finally, she reached self- actualization and self-identity. Keywords: female artist, self- actualization, Liu I-Lan, self-narrative