CONTEMPLATION~Mei-Yueh Hsu's Painting Discourse

• Main Authors: Mei-Yueh Hsu, 許美月
• Other Authors: 林文海
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7tpuf5

碩士 === 東海大學 === 美術學系 === 103 === Psychological researches show that modern people generally suffer from pressure, pain and diseases. Our distress includes various traumatic scars, cruelty and violence, and enormous ignorance and greediness, irrational attempts and cheats, which all seem to torture us and the world often. The subject of this study is “contemplation” which is the author's concern about social phenomena and psychological levels with the author's thought to observe and realize life experience. It is training, restraint and quietness, and a state of entering introspection, vigilance and meditation completely. What is life? What should I do for life? What is the purpose of life? How should I deal with slumps in life?I have been contemplating these questions. I think I live and exist because I “know how to love.” I learn to love myself and all living things, and learn to pass down love and to be loved. I marvel at the power that the Nature comforts people's hearts. When one is in a slump, he can take a look at natural scenes through reading, and he can enjoy peace of mind and smile unconsciously. That is a mysterious response which connects with one's spirit. It has no language, but it directly goes into our hearts. Art is the exchange of “body, mind and spirit.” Through the integration of “knowledge, sentiment and meaning” of psychological theories, my aesthetic thought is born. Through the implementation of “action,” my works are thus created. Aesthetic thought is a kind of abstract and strongly subjective awareness hidden deep inside our minds, and it agglomerates and blends into personal thinking, emotions and aesthetic preference. I think art should be the imitation of images of moral ideals and perfect spirit, and that aesthetics has transformed people into the primary subjects of art. “Simplicity, interest, and emotions” are my aesthetic thought. Simplicity refers to simplified and pure concepts, interest stands for the fun of spiritual modeling, and emotions are the demonstration of emotions turning into colors. Keywords: Contemplation, introspection, pass love down, reading, purity, spiritual modeling; emotional transformation.