| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 美術學系 === 97 === Abstract
Art is inseparable with times, history, and humanity. Taiwan’s geography, politics, history, and cultural environment are extremely unique, along with the impact of globalization, resulting in distinctive phenomena in Taiwan. Politically, Taiwan has an ambiguous relationship with China. Culturally, Taiwan is influenced by cultures all over the world—Taiwan’s young people have a unique sense of fashion, language, and logic, especially the generation born after 1980. The people from this generation have no recollections of World War II or of Taiwan’s martial law period, resulting in a huge gap between them and the older generations. Taiwan’s focus on the Internet and digital technology has also affected the way the younger generations receive information. These phenomena are the reasons why people born after 1980 are called the “Strawberry Generation.” My dissertation focuses on this generation, its different faces and anxieties, and how digital technology affects young Taiwanese painters.
I myself fall into the category of the Strawberry Generation, and have been through Taiwan’s economic boom after the martial law period, and the political freedom that came with it. Like many people my age, I have been a regular club goer, enjoying the nightlife, obsessed with the Internet, and computer, communication, and consumer electronic goods, the so-called 3C products. As an artist, however, I am particularly sensitive to our times. I am deeply concerned with the cultural surroundings around me and others, trying to understand the perspectives of the Strawberry Generation in regards to Taiwan’s politics, economy, and fashion culture.
This dissertation is divided into six chapters, each as follows:
Chapter One, Introduction:
Explanation of my motivation and objective. Brief introduction of Taiwan’s unique environment, and how this environment influences my artistic vision, and a discussion of politics, history, and culture through the flamboyant appearance of the Strawberry Generation.
Chapter Two, Foundation of Art Theories Applied in My Work
A discussion of Realism through different schools in the painting history, how Realism returns to its roots and how it abandons them, and how photography affects Realism painting, with the 70s as a watershed.
Chapter Three, My Artistic Vision
A discussion of the development of digital technology, how it influences my work, and an analysis of how 3C products have changed the young generation’s perspective that is entirely different than that of their predecessors.
Chapter Four, Form, Content, Mediums, and Techniques
The definition of the Strawberry Generation, a discussion of the possible existence of depth in the Strawberry Generation. With horror movies as a lead, I explore how these movies are symbolic of contemporary society’s anxieties, which inspire the Strawberry Generation series. A discussion of how I utilize digital technology in my work, and try to discover more possibilities in painting.
Chapter Five, Analysis of My Work
Chapter Six, Conclusion
A discussion of how, via my work, I investigate on deeper levels Taiwan’s art scene and society, how I care about the environment where I grew up with a worldly attitude, and work toward self-elevation.
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