The Matter-sense Of Material-an Interpretation Of The Materials In Anselm Kiefer's Works

The Culture and the content, inside of materials, are the importance of each mixed-media painting. Anselm Kiefer, one of the representative figures of Néo-expressionnistes allemands, makes a number of huge mixed-media paintings, many of which take history and religion as the themes. Towards the investigations about function and essence of the materials in mixed-media paintings, the dissertation, digs his approach of projects, and analyzes his material thought and usage, basing on Kiefer's works and the typical materials in the works.The dissertation begins a generalization that there are about four structure layers in each Kiefer's mix-media painting, according to the coat structure of a general oil painting. The four levels are the based layer, the painting layer, the ready-made layer, and the protection layer.This structure is applied to majority of Kiefer's mixed-media works created around the end of 20th century. A great deal of materials, besides the pigments, Can be found out in every layer. As the following, the dissertation discusses Kiefer's study of material culture and grasp of material content in the process of creating with the three points:"Plumbum, as a base material";"Salt, as a painting material";"Hair, as a ready-made"."Plumbum", "salt", or "hair", No matter what material is much more than a pure material, respectively gluing the corresponding history, culture, and religion. In chapter 1, some of Kiefer's works with the lead base are mentioned, combining with the western culture, the western's universal understanding, and the suggestion about Plumbum.Chapter 2 begins"lot's wife", one of Kiefer's representative works. His use of salt is analyzed, contacting of the topic, the religion, and this work.The key point of chapter 3 is hair. It is hair, mentioned in Paul Celan's"death fugue", combined with the corresponding western culture, especially in some literary works, that closely associates with Kiefer's exploration of Shulamith.Generalizing from the discussions above about the typical materials in the three structure layers, it is the main content of chapter 4, effects and activities of the materials in mixed-media paintings. It is elaborated that the effects come through the matter-sense, including three levels: the texture of materials, the memory of materials, and the psyche of materials. To strengthen and to spread the matter-sense, several theories are touched upon: the thought roughly translated as"lend a thing to come round", some points of Reception Theory, and the Synesthesia proposition advanced by Qian Zhong Shu.In the textual coda part, some personal studies and works of the writer are described, after the research of Kiefer's materials.