| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 美術學系 === 102 === This research is a self-critique of the author’s 20-piece painting portfolio with rain and city as the main elements. By probing into the relationship between rain and Taipei, a metropolitan city where the author was born and raised, this research focuses on 1) the impacts that rainy weather has on the development of paintings and 2) how an artist would likely interpret rain in his or her artworks. The scope of this research includes Art History, Sociology of Art and their influence on the author. The critique of the artworks focuses on the contents, forms, and the skills performed.
The research is comprised of six chapters and an appendix, including information of all the pictures and paintings referred to in the study.
Chapter one is the introduction to the themes and media of the paintings, the author’s creative motivation and purpose, and the scope and research methods of this study.
Chapter two is literature review, which includes the study of “water” in the paintings of early Taiwanese watercolor painters. In this chapter, the rain portrayed by early western and eastern watercolor artists are also discussed in the context of Sociology of Art to better realize the social impacts on artists and their artworks.
Chapter three is the statement of the author, expressing the underlying concepts of his paintings, discussing the images and dynamics created by the combination of rain, city and people and how the author interprets the three elements in the context of this present generation.
Chapter four analyzes the contents, formats, skills and media of the paintings in the portfolio. This chapter discusses the portfolio as a whole, explaining the contents of and elements in the paintings, the skills used, and how the artist conveyed his ideas through watercolor.
Chapter five is the description of each individual painting in the portfolio, in which the background and process of creativity are focused on. The contexts, composition, use of color and skills of the 20 pieces of artworks are all narrated in detail.
Chapter six is the conclusion of this paper, summarizing the author’s work within the four years in graduate school and the expectation of his future performance.
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