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Issue 3: Unresolve

Sublime, Creating Environment for Meditative Calm and Encountering Landscape

This essay reflects my research on encountering landscapes, creating an environment for meditative calm and the idea of sublime.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

On Memory

Exploring the possibility of preserving memory and containing emotion in the face of loss and grief

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

Self-expression: Revisit narrative landscape painting

The essay traces my artistic evolution from realistic painting under socialist realism to a quest for artistic freedom and primarily explores the possibility of transcending the constraints of national ideology in my personal landscape paintings, aiming for self-expression. It also critically analyzes and attempts to philosophically position my painting practice based on Adorno aesthetic theories.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

The Art of Imagery in Drawing: Landscape of Memory

This essay discusses my research on the art of imagery in the creation of drawings, which is combined with examples of artworks and my personal artistic practice to discuss the influence of landscape, imagery, and picturesque concepts on my creative thinking.