藝術的根本

一些經過時間思考仍粗略的想法

數學是可以表現出接近完美的形式,非常的純粹,可以很美,極度單純而複雜.

進了政治大學應用數學系,沒能學透也沒能精通,但卻讓見識到了甚麼是數學,現在回想是件很幸福的事,深感自己是井底之蛙.

然而在學數學的那段時間,有件特別有趣的事,數學看似甚麼都能質疑,然後加以證明,進而理解,所有的疑問似乎都能追根究柢,毫無掩飾的表現,但是到了最根本的那層,質疑還可以被證明嗎? "1"是甚麼? "+"是甚麼 1+1=2這是甚麼嗎? 數學有些根本上的元素不適合被質疑也沒有適合方法證明,如果最基礎的元素被質疑,所有的建構都是虛無.

藝術是圍繞著人而產生的,數學是個很好的借鏡,釐清甚麼是建構我們所創作藝術的根本元素或許是一個能導向學習藝術很好的方法. 物理面,人類普遍擁有著對稱與些微的不對稱;普遍平衡的身體; 一對可以奔跑和投擲的雙臂; 靈巧的手與不可思議的五感等,在感性面,負面的有暴食、色欲、貪婪、忌妒、暴怒、懶惰、驕傲及傲慢這西方七原罪,或是七情六慾喜、怒、哀、懼、愛、惡、慾, 色欲、形貌欲、威信姿態欲、言語音聲欲、細滑欲、人想欲等等都可說是身為人最基本的,都是渴求的,如果質疑這些,那還存在些甚麼? 由這來反證, 脫離這些最基本建構人的元素,那產物的存在價值是很有爭議的. 

最讓人不願意見到的就是質疑自己是人這件事.

Mt. Diablo State Park

"Incomplete" 不完整

Painting the whole thing in Photoshop from the setting I made several days ago.

The Left one was broken because I was backing up the car and ran over it, the right one I got it cheap from a native american store with 7 dollars since it was broken.

"不完整"

剛搬到舊金山的那幾天,左邊的音樂盒掉在車庫被車壓過去,已經轉不動也撥不出聲音了,右邊的應該是山貓的頭骨,在幾年前於北邊黃石公園入口處的一家印地安人商店買的,因為破損,用了7元美金購買下來.

救贖

取個中文名字"救贖"

Aurora

2010.04.04 Oregon Coast

A trip with my sister and her family, and it was raining.

We didn't really go out, so I stay in the room and painted this one.

Right after this one, I also did a small oil painting with the same view.

2D Artist Magazine Issue 68

The topic is about how to paint children for 2D Artist magazine. You can find this tutorial in issue 68.

I did one thing which I think it fun to try. I mixed with a photo of my oil paintings, and I think it create some nice texture and some nice color blend which is hard to get with Photoshop brush.

Favorite Place

Art or Not

Jason, Wei-Che, Juan

This one is from Art of Not Terminal which is a gallery and downstairs has regular Life Drawing and Life Painting session on Monday Night in Seattle.

This one was done in one and half sessions, each session is around 3 hours.