Contemporary Painting 01
The course of "Contemporary Painting" by Kevin Moore provided by AAU is mainly to guide students to understand and explore the historical background of the many inheritance and evolution of American contemporary art creation style from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. This mainly includes: expressionism, stylization, cubism, pop art, surrealism and realism. Although the topics covered are broad and not in-depth, they are eye-opening and breathtaking.
Remember, the lesson plan for the first two or three weeks starts with a discussion of expressionist styles and practical creative exercises. At that time, I was still ignorant and didn't know what I was doing. I am a little skeptical of the definition of "expressionism". Isn't painting a way of expressing emotions and thoughts through "visual techniques"? Does being called expressionism have to be very emotional?
I have to admit that our generation of art creators have more dignity and have basically never experienced the hardships of world wars, industrial revolutions, and economic depression. Unlike the expressionist style of that era, you can always feel the dark, negative, roaring or expressing strong resistance in the works of that period.
On the other hand, the creators of this generation of ours, the world they face seems to be close to a lifestyle of neuroticism, information explosion, environmental protection, technology and the rapid evolution of viruses. Therefore, it can be inferred that the modern expressionist style seems to be more wandering: questioning such a world, disgusting the world, cynical, fragile and other complex emotional expressions.
Fortunately, at the time my daughter Nora promised me that she would be my model. She was at the end of 17 years old and was experiencing the challenge of "growth" transformation. Her facial features are prominent, especially her eyes are big and round, firm and energetic, slightly youthful, lively, rebellious, questioning, bitter, shy, even a bit cynical, beside the blinds, under the afternoon sun. Let me notice these. The subtle expression makes me want to record it through images...
So Nora’s rich expressions became the best muse for me to create oil paintings with "expressionism approach".
Nora, oil on 16x20" canvas
AAU提供的Kevin Moore先生的《當代繪畫》課程主要是引導學生了解和探索美國當代藝術創作風格從20世紀初至今的諸多傳承和演變的歷史背景。這主要包括：表現主義、程式化、立體主義、波普藝術、超現實主義和寫實主義。雖然涵蓋的主題廣泛而不深入，但它們令人大開眼界和令人嘆為觀止。
請記住，前兩三週的課程計劃從討論表現主義風格和實用的創意練習開始。那個時候，我還是懵懂的，不知道自己在做什麼。我對“表現主義”的定義有點懷疑。繪畫不就是一種通過“視覺技術”來表達情感和思想的方式嗎？被稱為表現主義是否必須非常情緒化？
不得不承認，我們這一代的藝術創作者較於養尊處優，基本沒有經歷過世界大戰、工業革命、經濟蕭條的艱辛。不像那個年代的表現主義畫風，總是可以感受到那個時期的作品，隱約散發哪股黑暗的，負面的，咆哮或表達強烈的抵抗情緒。
反觀我們這個世代的創作者，面對的世界，似乎是接近於一種神經質、信息爆炸、環保、科技和病毒快速進化的生活方式。因此，可以推斷，現代表現主義風格，似乎比較遊走於：質疑這樣一個世界，厭世、憤世嫉俗、脆弱等複雜的情感表達。
幸運的是，當時我的女兒諾拉（Nora）向我承諾，願意擔任我的模特，當時的她介於17歲尾聲，正在經歷“長大”轉型的挑戰。她的五官突出，特別是眼睛又大又圓，很堅定有活力，略顯青春，活潑，叛逆，質疑，苦澀，害羞，甚至有點憤世嫉俗，百葉窗旁，午後的陽光下. ，讓我注意到這些微妙的表情，讓我很想透過影像紀錄下來......
於是諾拉豐富的表情成為了我用“表現手法”創作油畫的最佳繆斯
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