Painting And Self-understanding Of The Relationship

Concerning the relationship between painting and self-knowledge, most painters’ answer is definite, but they are still ambiguous about the combination under discussion. There is an age-old saying that is "Painting is a personal behavior". Admittedly, the majority of artists agree that "painting is the expression of personal thoughts (self-expression)". To clarify the relationship between painting and self-knowledge, the paper explores the process where painters experience self-oriented creation by self-knowledge, achieving clearer understanding of the paintings and their individuality. The process offers painters a channel to get to know their painting orientation and develop their own expression ways, generating strong motivation and originality. In fact, painters get to know themselves in the process of presenting the world. For painters, painting is the process and result of their knowing the world and self. Self-knowledge helps painters enhance their quality completely, and leads to their active painting involvement. It is in the process of self-knowledge that painters have deeper insights into what is inside the painting, that its "individuality" comes from and that self-knowledge is strengthened. The effectiveness of painting is achieved by what to be presented in the painting and how to be presented to satisfy painters’ originality. Over the long run, the issue worth discussing is how to achieve the effectiveness of painting by means of self-knowledge.