Publication: Portrait Painting Of An Elderly'S Grief: A Formalistic Approach
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2025-01
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Ngu, Mei Cui
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This research highlights the experience of the artist comprehending emotions by working on portrait paintings of grief for her grandmother, a centenarian, as a medium of the work of art in a studio space setting. Themes such as the idea of "respect" in painting the most intimate person, grief as a driving force of creative art practice, the "self" of a portraitist, portraiture of elderly, the idea and theory of formalism, and formalism and experience are included in the literature review of this research. The objective of this research is to explore and apply various formalistic elements and principles as methods of the artist's emotional expression. The emotional expression during the artmaking process and the artworks produced are later contemplated as a method known as self-reflection or self-inquiry to reason the artist's emotional experience and recognise her embodied emotions impact her artmaking. Other techniques are applied, such as photography experimental sketches as a data collection method, various oil painting skills of alla prima, glazing, planar analysis, and scumbling, and chiaroscuro lighting as a narration application in painting. There is also an analysis model adapted from hjort and lver's theory of emotion and the paintings.