Exploring The Relationship Between Man And Animal From Artistic Perspective

This thesis discusses the relationship between human beings and animals through art, and my own artworks. The reason for choosing this topic is that the relationship between humans and animals is an indispensable one in human life. The animal is the most similar groups to human beings in nature. With such a relationship, by virtue of the similarity, humans and animals have crossed the long river of history together. Along the way, the relationship between humans and animals has profoundly changed, with the development of the times, the culture, economy, science and technology.The author has a special concern of animals, and it’s also one of the sources of the theme of this thesis. Through different understandings and feelings to the animal over different periods, a series of works with a large number of animals have been created. The animal images in my works can be divided into three different types corresponding to the work time. Works started with the understanding and awareness of animals. During this period, the painting materials are coming from life, as well as the fantasy and dreams. "My life, my dreams" is one of the works of this period. The series on animal expressions show my feelings on the city life of animals connected to human beings. "Animal face series of photo" are the works of this period. In the last year of my postgraduate period, a series of works on the animal images and the streets of Lhasa were created in the context of the development of the city. "Unexpected", "Contradiction of city life and they" are the works of this period.The paper is divided into four chapters. The first chapter discusses the germination, formation and development of the relationship between human beings and animals, through the main line of the development of human beings; the second chapter discusses the western religion for the different understanding of animals; the third chapter discusses the relationship of animals and art in western culture; the fourth chapter expresses my understanding and feelings of animals in three stages.The case study method is employed in the process of analyzing and writing of this thesis. Starting from the point of art, a large number of books and literatures about animals have been consulted. “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ”,this book discusses the evolution process of the human from animals. We can understand the development of human beings, as well as find the important role of animals in humans’ development from this book. Cao Wenbin’s " The Comparative Study Western Animal Liberation Theory and Chinese Buddhist Concept of Animals" discusses the different understandings and developments of animal ethics from a religious point of view. And Zhang Wenwen’s master ’s degree thesis. The study of Confucian Ethics of Animal discusses the system of the Confucian ethics of animal. At the same time, I also summarize the artistic phenomenon in the western history of art on the theme of the animals. A lot of picture materials about animals have been collected from the Internet. Through combing of the existing text data and image data, the overall appearance of this thesis is formed.