This painting was created in 2019. This year is the third year of college. I started to prepare for my graduation work, so I tried paintings with more concepts, depth and formal unity. In these paintings, you Being able to begin to see a more specific me. Such attempts did add weight to the work, but it was only a small step compared to the depth that would later come with the weight of life. Then came the COVID-19 epidemic at the end of the year, and the future that people expected changed its face, either urgently or slowly.
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Size without the frame: x cm
Country: China
Date: 2019
Materials: Oil paint on linen
Condition: well preserved
Creative themes and style | My works revolve around the creative concept of "The land of humanity, People on the land". The people in the painting are people in nature, and the lines, shapes, and colors are close to nature. The nature in the painting is nature in the eyes of humans, existing in interaction with humans.I don’t pursue a series of works with a fixed and continuous style. I hope that the style of the pictures will synchronize with the changes in my life and always remain oscillating. The performance of the work must be in sync with the development of one's own life in order to be Sincere and powerful. Ideas are later.
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"The Pursuer's Fantasy" employs surreal brushwork to construct a fantastical and uncanny psychic realm. In terms of composition, the juxtaposition of the human subject with the Ultraman figure shatters logical reality. This resembles Dalí's collage of dream elements, weaving the mundane with the fantastical, creating tension through stark visual contrast. This guides the viewer into the creator's fantasy labyrinth to decipher the "pursuer's" spiritual code.
Color application is bold and discordant. Clashes of bright yellow, pinkish-purple, and turquoise green evoke Pollock's action painting style of chromatic release. Rejecting conventional tonal order, the chaos and conflict of colors mirror inner turmoil and fantasy. High-saturation color blocks spread across the canvas like emotional detonations, transforming color into a tangible symbol of fantasy.
Brushwork technique blends the coarse and the delicate. The meticulous rendering of the human face anchors the image in reality, while the spontaneous strokes depicting the background and Ultraman introduce surreal absurdity. Comparable to Bacon's portrayal of human alienation, the disparity in brushwork tears at the boundary between reality and fantasy. This intensifies the chaos and delirium of the "pursuer's fantasy," creating a unique aesthetic impact through the tension between realism and deconstruction.
Content and theme revolve around the "pursuer's fantasy." Ultraman, a symbol of childhood heroism, juxtaposed with the adult subject, metaphorically expresses a yearning for purity and power. While resonating with Yayoi Kusama's exposure of her inner psychic world, the painting utilizes a more contemporary symbol (Ultraman) to decode the struggles of modern individuals caught between reality and fantasy, growth and nostalgia. It is an artistic unveiling of individual spiritual longing.
Emotional expression is complex and raw. The subject's heterochromatic pupils and peculiar demeanor convey alienation from reality and immersion in fantasy. Ultraman's presence acts as an invocation of a lost heroic dream. Within the context of contemporary painting, this work uses surrealism as a scalpel to dissect the folds of individual psyche. It continues art's eternal excavation of human depth. Like a beam of fantasy piercing through reality, it illuminates the shared psychic shadows of creator and viewer, compelling confrontation with inner desires and struggles.
A1: The oversized eyes place the figure in a realm between childlike innocence and surreal strangeness. They convey both a sense of purity and a veiled mystery—appearing to gaze at the viewer while also peering into an unseen world.
A2: Ultraman, as a symbol of popular culture, represents protection and power. Yet here it appears miniaturized and toy-like, almost illusory. This transformation suggests an imagined role of “protector” or “pursuer,” more of a psychological projection than a tangible source of reliance.
A3: The distant architecture and bridge evoke the ordinariness of reality, but set against the surreal protagonist and fantastical motifs, they create a striking contrast. This juxtaposition charges the canvas with tension, as if reality and fantasy coexist within the same temporal field.
A4: Soft gradients of pink, green, and blue bathe the scene in a dreamlike lightness. Yet the intense coloring of the eyes and lips introduces an uncanny edge, allowing the painting to hover between sweetness and eeriness.
A5: The Fantasies of a Pursuer explores how the inner self constructs fantasies of guardianship and desire. The wide-eyed figure embodies an introspective self, while the Ultraman-like presence represents an externalized, idealized pursuer. Between them emerges an ambiguous, unfinished psychological dialogue.
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