Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Art
Reader 1
Adam Davis
Reader 2
Kasper Kovitz
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Abstract
This paper establishes the pivotal role and irreplaceable value of painting in the technology-driven, image-saturated contemporary culture today. Particularly in my work, painting old childhood photographs creates a contemplative platform where I can deconstruct and reconstruct relics of my formative past as means of better understanding my multicultural upbringing. Inspired by both Chinese Communist propaganda posters and the ’85 New Wave Contemporary Chinese Art Movement, my senior project confronts the façade of perfection staged in Chinese family portraits through convoluted layers of imagery and Chinese text that build up the painting. The amalgamation of bold outlines, expressive brushstrokes, and disciplined grids, challenges the stifling values of discipline, order, and homogeneity in traditional Chinese culture.
Recommended Citation
Tu, Maxine, "Underneath the Film: Reconstructing Reality Behind Taiwanese Family Portrait Through Contemporary Painting" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 948.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/948
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
