User:Chen Junyu/Graduation Project Seminar/ project proposal/outline

Outline

My thesis will base on the process of making the graduation project, discuss what is the process of drawing and how to express the vitality of drawing(or painting) process.

How to express the vitality of drawing(or painting) process

The vitality of the process of drawing here leads to the general Chinese painting principles : Resonance of the spirit, the vitality of drawing. It is the

Reading List

Philip Rawson, Drawing "Drawing" explains what is drawing from a very fundamental level: why drawing is the most fundamentally spiritual art activity, how does it work with human mind( from the painter's view), how to experience a drawing/painting from spectators' aspect. The connection of this book to my thesis/graduation work is, it clarifies the definition of drawing/painting, and the difficulties to get to know all the information from the painter.

Fritz van Briessen， The Way of the Brush: Painting Techniques of China and Japan :

This book explains the concept behind the Eastern painting, the three different things which effects it most: the general principles of Chinese painting. It talks about what is the gap when people which have western culture background appreciate an Eastern painting, and what is the possible way to decrease this gap.

James Elkins, Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History also his article "How to look at Mondrian"