Art creations are the reflection of meaning of life, where artists, regardless of the approach to study and development, can truly bring their artistic wills into full play through self-perception of affection and experience. Such energy is infinite and despite the effect of these ideas likely originating from all dimensions and sometimes even fragments of memories, the correspondence between artists’ minds and hands can eventually be analyzed for a direction and context of creations.
The thesis of the paper - “Spirits & Enlightenment – A Study of Paintings by Hung-Chun Wu” is a discourse on the works created by the author during the period of doctoral research between 2016 and 2019. The discourse adopts animals, mountain rocks and plants as the syntaxes for the interpretation of “spirits” in these paintings. On the other hand, the source of ideas originates from the author’s self-perception of life and reflection for the way of the world, which express the “enlightenment” of works through the approach of personification and fables. The “spirits” mentioned by the works refer to a general concept of creatures, which feature active and passive cognitions of life while the plots and stories constituted by the cognition of ideas undergo artistic analysis and implementation of creations in this paper. Followed by conducting an intrinsic speculation and comprehension between perception and creation, the author eventually establishes four series of contexts for creations through “profound thinking and consideration,”“poetic expression of ancient sites,”“world of people,”and “peaceful temperament and leisure”- which are adopted as the main concept of the research paper.