Artist Statement 3rd Draft

I love the arts. When I was an elementary school student, I found that drawing was the way that I could express my emotion. Now, I express myself to others through painting. When I painting, I can strongly feel my mind and body joyful. For me, the factions of arts are expressing feelings and making people happy.

I love making art, and also I like to see art. I read arts magazines, books and arts albums and those are the important resources for me. I got informations not only by reading, but also feeling. Recently, I visited the US, Japan and China to see their real contemporary arts and of course I learned a lot. Besides, I try to learn something from other artists and I think it is the best way to improve my arts.

Besides, I am a pop culture addict. For instance, I like Japanese comics, animations, Hollywood movies, action figures and video games. When I enjoy these pop culture products, I feel happy. Most of my inspirations are coming from them. These inspirations are very helpful when I am doing my paintings and drawings. The reason that I put the subculture symbols in my painting is I want to record the contemporary phenomenon. As a contemporary artist, I want to show people what happen right now in the 21^st century. I want to paint something that is happening now, and record it through my painting. Recently, subculture has become a great trend to affect our life, and I want to introduce subculture to people who do not understand. Also, I can use pop culture symbols well because I am very familiar with them. When people see my artwork, I want to make them feel fun. Using those subculture things can make my painting full of fun.

I am try to make my artwork more dramatic and memorable. I use flat style to show my idea on the canvas. Flat is one of the important characteristics of pop culture. Also, I prefer to use bright colors and I try to make the figurative characters have dramatic actions. The reason that I use these styles is because I want to make the audience have strong impression. I hope that my artwork can be understood by not only artists, but also common people. Making artwork easy to understand is very important to me, because I want to let everyone can enjoy my art and make everyone feels fun. Pop culture is interesting, and I put pop culture in my painting to make audience feel interesting.

I had great influence form the Pop Art movement. Andy Warhol, who is the master of Pop Art, he tried to make common things becoming arts and let everyone can enjoy arts. I am totally agree with this idea, I want to make art that everybody can understand and enjoy easily. In my paintings, I use figurative objects and characters, also, I presented by flat style with bright colors. The Contemporary Pop artist, Takashi Murakami, who created the trend of Japanese Pop culture is also the artist that I admired. In his artwork, he creates cartoon characters which full of subculture component. He uses super flat style to exhibit his artwork, and he has becoming very success. .

However, the art environment in Taiwan is not popular, and being an artist in Taiwan is not easy. I am glad that I still can make art right now, and I hope that I can keep doing it.