Li, Jiarui;
(2023)
To Crown a Broccoli. Progressing on the path of Jungian individuation through animistic images in painting.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This practice-led research report investigated my personal individuation journey in painting. Art has, in contemporary days, become an increasingly discursive and broad concept which contains overwhelming diversity and has a tendency to confuse not only the audience but also the artists. As a researcher as well as an artist early in her career, I faced similar questions as many others. How to find authenticity in art? How to become an individual on canvas? Inspired by Jung’s concept of individuation, the lifelong development of personality, I created a planning and analytical tool for art, the Creative and Evaluative Model of Artistic Individuation, or CEMAI. This tool consists of multiple axes of contradictions. I identified different axes on CEMAI and experimented with various visual complexities in painting, looking at Chinese (professional) and UK (liberal) art education, the interchanging identities of child and adult, and the relationship between word and image. I tried to find my position in all of this, a balanced zone among different contradictions. Inspired by the Naxi culture I realised the validity and significance of the animistic point of view. This was that middle zone, a conclusion as well as an opening of the future. Through this process, I continue to gradually progress along the path of Jungian individuation on an authentic journey of selfrealisation. The approach I have taken is largely autoethnographic, with my own stories and lived experiences acting as an integral part of and often mixed in with more methodological research.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | To Crown a Broccoli. Progressing on the path of Jungian individuation through animistic images in painting |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > The Slade School of Fine Art |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178618 |
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