Abstract
Hung Ken-Shen (1946~) was born in an outlying island of Taiwan- Penghu. He study at Fine Arts Department of Taipei Normal University and received formal art training in 1966. Then he serve as an teacher at Daren Middle School, Kaohsiung Middle School, and as a professor at the Fine Arts Department of Kaohsiung Normal University.After retiring, he settled down in Kaohsiung and keep creating until now. From 1970 to 2020, his experimental creations continued. Between ink landscape and figure painting, he continued to use different themes and media to conduct multiple trials. On December 19, 2020, the Cultural Bureau of Penghu County officially established the "Hung Ken-Shen Art Museum", reviving and reusing the historical buildings of local cultural assets (the former Penghu Hall Gendarmerie), and collecting hundreds of Hung Ken-Shen’s paintings from different periods and Documentation.
The research of this dissertation focuses on the the development of Hung Ken-Shen's ink wash painting from "modern to postmodern". The first chapter is to sort out the "modernity" and "postmodernity" of contemporary art ink wash painting, the contemporary ink literature and the background of his times. In the second chapter, to explore Hong Genshen's creation, publication and ideas in his creative life-style, then to teaching and personal practice, and preliminarily sorts out his " The appearance of post-modern ink ash painting; the third chapter analyzes the evolution and development process of Hung Ken-Shen's ink wash painting works "modern to post-modern", and analyzes the formation of the series of "bandaged human figures" and "black complex"; Chapter 4: Abstraction and Empathy - Hung Ken-Shen's Spirituality in Art, exploring the emotional connection between people and works, and analyzing the works with the inner-words of mirror image, restraint, anxiety and other words in Lacan's psychoanalytic theory.
This research is the first master essay on Hung Ken-Shen, who conducts experiments on personal works and reviews after publication; and, analyzes the variation of landscape and figure paintings in his ink and wash creations over the past 50 years. The representative works of "tradition", "modern" and "post-modern" are studied and analyzed, and finally, the empathy effect of Hung Ken-Shen's ink and wash works mutated to post-modern works is analyzed by the theory of Lacan's psychoanalysis.
| Date of Award | 2022 |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Supervisor | Ya-Lun Wang (Supervisor) & Chong-Ray Hsiao (Supervisor) |