“Sentimental Attachment to the Past” –Discourse on Ink Paintings

[[abstract]]”Sentimental Attachment to the Past” refers to one’s emotion for hometown, Kinmen, which narrates and review family stories through old residence in order to express the sentimental attachment and review of the family. The work contains the theme of the ancestral home, Cai, Kai-Sheng’s Taiwanese “Double Mansion with wings and western-style building” with integration of Chinese-Western architecture, which expresses the strong emotions held by the painter towards home through component creations of this residential architecture, using sketches and silhouette that symbolize abstract emotions. The discourse of creation applies theoretical analysis, comprehensive theories, quality thinking, and art criticism and appreciation to research creation by constructing concepts of creation and discussing creative forms in practice, to improve creativity quality through interpretation and modification to works. The creative theme in “Sentimental attachment to the past” is implemented through creations and supported by theory analysis to discuss the true inner expressions, in addition to exploring the possibility of future creations and development through clarification and construction of works. The introduction of Chapter 1 describes research motivation and purpose, research scope and content, and research methods and procedures, in attempt to objectively present the environment and human conditions of the research as reference for reader examination. The theoretical basis of Chapter 2 discusses characteristics of Kinmen residence through traditional dwelling shape and decorations of Kinmen. The study also portrays the beauty of the architecture for Cai, Kai-Sheng’ residence with discussion of architectural decorations and proposes painters of local care. The concepts of creation in Chapter 3 analyses the creative content by describing the origin of material adopted and its significance. The statement on creative form describes the implementation of painter’s ink-painting creations. The analysis of Chapter 4 applies analysis of works to verify the foregoing content. The conclusion in Chapter 5 summarizes on ideas and thoughts on creation and proposes self-expectations in artistic creations.