Key Words: artist research, Collection obsession, definition of collection, self-understanding, comparison, specimen, animal, animal protection, painting, painter, painting works, color collection, oil painting, self-portrait, an extended discussion, slow motion, photography, post retouring, PS

Brief Introduction: For the post-production of this work, I set up a blog for them because there are so many artists that need to be investigated and discussed. In this page, I will introduce my research content from two aspects.

— Collector in Life

Do you have hobbies like collecting? Maybe some people like collecting stamps, some people like collecting coins, some people like collecting records, and some people like collecting toys and models. Now Buzzfeed has put together a series of photos of collectors to show how crazy they are.

— Artist Survey, About Taxidermy

• Gerard Geer

“Through the cylinder and the glass, the material object is fragmental and looks like a digital malfunction.”

The alternations of size, shape, and position of these water-filled contains offer an endless array of combinations. “Desrspective” is an interesting study of everyday life, challenging the single identity of ordinary things to reveal a multitude of visual represent tat ions.

Melbourne Artist Gerard Geer has opened an exhibition at Binary gallery to showcase his bizarre and deadly animal bones.
Fantasy, bold idea. Hands-on ability and other color matching, beautiful and quirkiness.

Taxidermy, the practice of making lifelike specimens of real animals, was mostly popular in England during the Victorian era, but with the help of modern science, the ancient art is beginning to come back to life. According to one survey, the stuffed animal industry is worth more than $600 million a year in the United States alone.

Amanda Sutton, who runs a workshop at the Museum of Pathology at Barts Medical School in London, teaches taxidermy to people, including the historical and scientific background behind the technique. The taxidermy process varies from person to person, and from animal to animal.
The taxidermist’s policy is not to use animals that have been specifically killed, but to accept only those that have died naturally or accidentally, in a way that preservers the beauty of the animals in life.

— The Exploration of Color And The Continuation of Works

• Blue, Yves Klein

In 1956, Klein synthesized a unique lapis lazolite Blue with the help of a chemist, and five years later he patented the color, called International Klein Blue, or IKB.

Klein’s blue frees the viewer from the game of “finding a theme” and letting his mind wander.
But on the other hand, this use of color seems to echo Klein’s mystic tendencies. He was fascinated by all the mystical ideas, the infinite, the indefinite, the absolute, which had always occupied his mind.

Klein was so enamored with blue that he loved the different colors of the sea and even learned to sail for them — “blue is the color of sky, water and air, depth and infinity, freedom and life. Blue is the essential color of the universe.” His blue monochrome paintings can even be seen as a mockery of the abstract art of the time. For they are “not only themeless, they are, as it were, nothing, if anything, ’empty'”.

• 何多苓, Gray

In the contemporary Chinese painting world, He Duoling is a remarkable figure.
Since the release of the oil painting Spring Breeze Has Awakened in 1982, his new works have been published constantly. His painting style has changed quietly, and his form and language have been gradually improved. However, his face as a painter is distinct and his image to people is overall. He is regarded as a realist painter of great talent.

Grey is the most basic color on He Duoling’s canvas over the years, and it turns out that he is really good at it. If you go to his studio, you will find that the colors on his palette are pure, even monotonous. It is a challenge to use the simplest materials to represent the most complex objects.

In recent years, the persistence and persistence of He Duoling’s depiction of the female human body, the simplest yet most complex field, has been a test for him. The so-called distinction between “creation” and “study” has become unimportant under the pen of He Duoling, who has already injected the soul for those shadowy figures while conducting formal experiments.
Most of the models he photographed in the process of collecting materials did not have any clear expressions, and the motion was also the most general. Of course, this must be the appearance that the painter himself required.
They usually just stand or sit idly. However, their bodies and eyes become the most direct carriers of language. Then, in pictures simple enough, peaceful enough, peaceful enough, gradually you can feel the uneasiness behind the silence, feel the compulsion to be constantly subdued, and if you are attentive enough, you can even listen to the sounds of desire.

• Pierre Soulages, black

Pierre Sulage has been called the spokesman of the “black” in the art world. Black is almost always the theme, from his original 1946 walnut plant-dyed paper paintings to his latest large oil paintings on canvas. He was fascinated by black as a child and always covered his paper with black. “What are you drawing?” he was once asked. He answered, “I am drawing snow, because black makes the white snow whiter.”

He allowed the paint on his canvas to dominate his work year after year, making no resistance and concentrating more on the texture and effect of the paint as it appeared. Thus, he is not so much painting black as “carving” it. The painting tools he used sometimes made the surface of the painting flat, and sometimes produced many texture effects on the surface, so as to fully reflect the effect of light, shadow and color. Soulages’s paintings give each viewer a unique experience, depending on the environment and the time of day.So some critics say Soulages “liberated black from darkness.”

• Research Summary

The three artists I investigated above have played a great role in my later works. These three colors basically determine the color trend of my works.

Apart from blue, especially the black and grey, these two colors are almost on my emotional tendency, maybe my work is becoming more and more single color now, and my work is becoming more and more close to through various angles pour out human those seemingly elusive emotion – fragile, sad, sensitive, dismay… Just like the gray, black and white on the picture, it gives people a feeling of uncertainty and hard to let go.

I think the tone of the next works will be introverted, unable to stop but also wanting to talk back. However, the meaning space of these images will become more open and broader, and can enter the collective unconscious of more viewers. I will not add too many figures in the work, the single color and the only model standing there, their body is often the best expression.

—The Continuation of The Artist’s Work, The Combination of Colors, The Meaning of Oil Painting

In the old times, in order to leave some important memories and facilitate recording, people in the old times would draw the scene at that time by finding excellent painters, recording with paintings and collecting indelible memories with paintings.

When the society develops gradually with time and the technology progresses gradually, when the camera and a series of advanced equipment are invented, it is hard to imagine how terrified the painters who depend on painting at that time, because there is no more realistic painting that can compare with what the camera brings to us.

But today, in the production of this work, I want to go back to that era. I want to pick up the colors that people gradually ignore, and then shoot a group of pictures based on them.