Everything I Know About Love - an artistic enquiry

• Main Author: Amanda Flynn
• Other Authors: Ching-Hua Liao
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7z6kap

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 藝術與設計學系 === 107 === The purpose of this thesis is to provide my own reflections on love. I have split the topic into six sections: loving oneself, romantic love, love and family, women and love, sacred love, and lastly, love and language. These sections arise from my research and knowledge of the philosophy behind the idea of love, as talked about extensively in Ancient Greek texts and modern day philosophies and religions. The Ancient Greeks had many words and definitions for different types of love, but I feel that today’s society is in a state of crisis because we tend to focus solely on romantic love. Therefore, my thesis seeks to address these issues through the medium of art, partly driven by the fact that there are many books, many movies and a lot of music on this subject, but very little of yet in the realm of fine art. I hope to be able to break new ground on this. Another reason for embarking on this thesis is because through creating art, I am able to express and understand my own emotions, hence this thesis is also a personal journey of my own experiences of love in my life from my birth until this day. I hope that when others look at my work, they can feel a strong emotion within themselves, as even though each person’s experience is personal to oneself, we as a collective whole are ever trying to better understand this emotion that drives and affects us all.