January 8,2006

they said: I can't see the beauty!

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I am remaking my portfolio. This time, most of them are not installation works but paintings. My father has a very good camera and lenses, and he is going help me to take slides for them. Today, I displayed all my paintings that have been collected, then discussed with my aunt and my father about them.
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It was so difficult. I had realized that I am not good at expressing what my art is to people. However, today, I deeply understanded that how weak my oral expression and our people’s art experience are. Art is not beauty, and beauty doesn’t equal to sense. I like my paintings very much. I think they are so beautiful. However, my families don’t.
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Their senses of beauty are base on their own art educations and experiences. I can’t say that their opinions about art and beauty are wrong. All of them have their own value. But, it is pity that there are more possibilities about art and beauty have been ignored by them.


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相当不错!
我猜想背景的“福”“禄”“寿”应该和str的长辈们有关吧(至少是他们摆放的?)。
我不知道,也许多数华人偏爱的艺术比较浓郁,喜庆常常也都是令人躁动的颜色主题。
日本人和欧洲人则稍有不同,冷静、稀疏很有特色。似乎当代设计中一些流派非常推崇这种疏离的效果,比如你的这幅画。
我相信“美”本身也并非绝对,依据不同环境、不同场合、不同心情,同样的观赏者感受就有很大差异。
就我个人感觉而言,这幅画挂于素面朝天的墙上,感染力一点不弱,嘿嘿。
Posted by kastner at January 9,2006 14:02
視覺"美感"當然是有很大的成分是主觀的,不論是根據視覺感受或經驗的評斷。幾位我以前的教授,對我的圖也是很有意見的...不過之間的差異在於:教授們開放出各種討論的空間,而我的家人把評判的標準鎖定在於他們其實並不豐富藝術教育與經驗裡。

哈...我姑姑說"我看不到美感",而我爸則堅持"油畫就是只能用油彩,不可以加上原子筆和鉛筆線"、"油畫要畫滿"、"你應該畫一些彩色強烈畫的拍起幻燈片比較好看"...真是令人昏倒的對話。

藝術絕非只能待在象牙塔裡,但是大家也請試著爬上象牙塔看看,裡面其實是很有趣的 = =
Posted by str at January 9,2006 19:12
你父亲还真是有趣唉,哈哈。
记得李霖灿先生讲过:不懂“留白”,艺术心理有点“见与儿童邻”,常见儿童图画比赛,一个个若不涂满不罢休的样子。我就想,成语“画蛇添足”会不会也是儿童的杰作呢?
至于艺术的定义,真的好复杂,艺术家、观赏者、收藏者莫衷一是。
Posted by kastner at January 10,2006 10:54
我可以理解你的意思,我的畫一樣很難和家人分享,
因為背景和經驗不同,這多少是種遺憾.
我以後會試著在題材放在交集點上,把斷裂的部分接起來.

不過你家人的意見還真多,而且令人昏倒.
唉~框框外的人實在很難與在框框內的人溝通.
Posted by 福熊 at January 11,2006 12:58
哈哈...把題材放在交集點上...
如果最後發覺,我老爸和我姑姑對藝術其實也沒交集
那就糗大了
我們的藝術到底要關注在與誰的交集點上呢?

不過我是不擔心
藝術這種東西通常是跑在整個文化的前緣
而有所收穫時,也是在整個社會已經有很好的文化素養之後
只是時間的問題啦!
而我們還是要好好耕耘呀,要好好畫圖辦展覽,別跟著滿街俗淺的文化跑...
而小朋友的美術課也要好好上,別被拿去上數學啦 :)
Posted by str at January 11,2006 18:33
最末一句搞笑。
可惜整个儒家文化圈历来重视名第,日本、韩国、香港、台湾、大陆、新加坡、马来西亚,所有人都拼死拼活从小奋斗为了将来能念名牌大学。
我不知道在台湾学艺术是不是被看成是文化学得不怎么样所以改画画的?至少大陆很多人这么认为。当然,一旦小有成就则另当别论咯。
曾经一个新加坡的小朋友因为考试考砸了,被他妈妈海K一顿不说,还一周不让他吃午饭。吓人啊~
Posted by kastner at January 11,2006 19:52
禮拜一的時候,系上請人來演講,
講的是中西美學比較,談到藝術批評的model有三種,
下次寫給你看,哈,
變成用哲學來歸類也很有趣。
Posted by ant at January 13,2006 03:40