Compared with the unconstrained contemporary art, the balance of objective facts and subjective emotions is particularly important in the creation of art works. Because of its outstanding purpose, the collection of overseas art works requires us to comprehensively demonstrate multi-dimensional capabilities through rigorous logic, but at the same time, the embodiment of personal style and critical thinking is also an indispensable part. However, many students find it hard to find "inspiration" in their daily life and apply objective things to the practical creation of their works. Therefore, today we will specifically analyze how to grasp the laws of things through observation in the creation of art works collection, and explore their own emotional expression!

How to balance the expression of objective facts and subjective emotions in the creation of art works?

1. Give consideration to the unity of objectivity and subjectivity

Every art discipline and every work of art contains both subjective and objective factors, which is an organic unity of subjective and objective. Pure subjectivism or pure objectivism art does not exist at all.

The development of contemporary art requires us to get rid of the simple imitation of the objective world and give full play to the subjective creative spirit of the creators; In terms of forms and techniques of expression, it also advocates pluralism and freedom. From concrete to abstract is the only way for artistic development.

Ziyi, a student majoring in Huangyi Graphic Arts, discussed the subjective impression and objective facts

In addition, art is objective. It is not only the product of the picture frame and the art museum, but also a rigorous work that makes substantial contributions to human production and life. So no matter what form, works of art must be created and communicated in the objective world.

Taking both objectivity and subjectivity into consideration is the premise for the creation of art works. According to the different themes and disciplines, we need to grasp the different proportions of the two factors at different stages of creation.

2. Dig the most authentic emotions for inspiration

First of all, the first step in the creation of art works collection is to collect inspiration. The focus of this stage is to take objective things as the foothold and dig out your most authentic emotions. If we want to find inspiration that can be used in creation, the most important thing is how we observe and understand the world. When accumulating materials, we need to use both eyes and brains.

Many students will habitually look for inspiration from online or third-party products, which is indeed a convenience provided for us in the Internet age. But if the way students collect this information is limited to saving pictures, and does not extend to thinking, of course, it will not be converted into inspiration.

In order to make a real connection with things, we can directly obtain first-hand information. We often encourage students to show their familiar lives. For one thing, because everyone's environment, experience and perception are different, they can collect completely different inspiration materials; Secondly, even for the same thing, everyone's cognition and feelings will be different, so the theme, theme, form and style of the works also naturally have personal characteristics.

However, not all meaningful things in life can be included in the subject matter range of art collection creation. If we only think it is meaningful from a rational point of view, but do not cause a warm feeling from the emotional point of view, then it is difficult to conduct in-depth discussion on your works.

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This is why we often look at the source of inspiration for excellent cases, which may be an ordinary little thing or a popular social topic. The theme itself does not have uniqueness, but students pay attention to different entry points, which resonates with objective things emotionally. So the first step to give consideration to both objective things and subjective expression is to learn to observe life and be good at summarizing inspiration. All observations contain thinking, and all thinking contains creation.

3. Use objective research to build the foundation

Next, how to extend the subjective emotion to a deeper creative theme requires research to build the foundation of the work. At this time, the proportion of objective facts and logical thinking needs to become dominant.

The root of many engineering disciplines, such as architecture, interaction and industrial design, lies in their "rationality", and the early comprehensive and accurate research is a necessary process of collecting data. Taking architecture as an example, in the early stage of work, we must fully understand the cultural background, geographical conditions, policies and guidelines of the design site, To ensure that their ideas can be accurately landed.

For some visual disciplines, such as pure art, plane, photography, illustration, etc., such works seem to be the product of subjective emotions without rigorous logic as support, but in fact, the importance of accumulating objective basis in the creation of such works is to let the audience feel resonance in personal subjective expression.

Taking photography professional works collection as an example, objective things are expression objects, and small photos can carry personal style and emotional expression. Behind our perceptual processing, there is a wealth of information including aesthetic literacy, critical thinking, modeling ability, photography skills, and so on.

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In addition to the above mentioned majors, the stage for the final evaluation of clothing, products and films is the commercial market. Through the preliminary research, we analyze and sort out all the market needs to find out the market pain points that our design meets. This combination of subjective expression and objective facts is also an excellent way to express our personal potential to colleges and universities.

4. Implementation practice and comprehensive adjustment

Finally, in the practice stage, the foundation laid in the earlier stage has integrated the advantages of objectivity and subjectivity. Finally, in order to ensure that the final work results are more comprehensive, we should continue to return to the whole, grasp the balance between the two to achieve 1+1>2!

In the process of transforming the emotional inspiration and elements we collected earlier, we often encounter problems that are too conceptual and difficult to implement. In order to cooperate with the final product effect, we can try to simplify the elements visually to make the project easier to read and understand.

The method of creative practice should try to expand the expression form of art and try to use different media and materials to express. In this process, it can not only help us better understand the objective materials, but also verify the angle of expression that we want to express, further supporting our own ideas.

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Through targeted information supplement, we can find a more in-depth perspective to improve the control over the works. It also allows us to open the way of thinking of creative expression and avoid limiting the content we want to express because of the choice of media.

Hegel once said: "Since works of art are produced by the soul, it needs a creative activity of the subject." Although artistic creation cannot be separated from external objective objects, we always try to find and understand the relationship between our internal spiritual world and objective objects when we observe and grasp the reference objects.

The collection of art study abroad works is a form of expression of our aesthetic understanding of real life. It can be derived from objective facts, but it is not a copy of real life. Instead, it uses artistic means to convey your aesthetic concepts and consciousness gained in life to the admissions officer, so that colleges and universities can see your uniqueness and potential!

No matter what kind of art collection creation method, the impulse expressed is the most important. Curiosity about art is the source of our exploration of the world and the key to improving artistic expression. Each kind of art media has an independent expression language, and the diversified development trend of contemporary art will certainly push our cognition of the world to a broader cognitive dimension!

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