Psychoanalysing Visual Art Creation from the Imagination to Understand the Creative Process

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10.2991/978-2-38476-100-5_61How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Creative Process; Art Creation; Imagination; Visual Art; Psychoanalysis

Abstract

This research aims to understand, analyse and conceptualize a particular creative process of an artist that generates visual images from the imagination. The artist compares his creative process with an archaeologist that finds ancient artefacts inside the soil, in the same way he finds images inside the canvas while painting. He states that the images spontaneously appear as if he is dreaming, in this matter the artist finds mythological and symbolic images inside his final visual artworks that comes out spontaneously into the canvas. To understand this phenomenon, this research uses qualitative approach applying art-based methodology, by unpacking his artwork’s meaning, in order to find the theory behind this practice. The technique to collect data is with study document, art analysis and literature review. The artwork collection called “Unknown Evermind” that we are going to analyse contain 9 paintings, it was created in Indonesia during 2019 in an art studio in Bandung by an artist that we will call SEA. The findings shows that SEA’s artworks collection created within this period of time, are related with psychological concepts of Carl Gustav Jung such as the collective unconsciousness and the archetypes. The creative process is analysed with Jung’s methodology called active imagination, it explains why when SEA create his paintings he feels as if he is an archaeologist that discover artefacts in the canvas and the images spontaneously start to appears as if he is just dreaming them. We identify the archetypes of Mother, Self, Child, Hero, Great Man, Shadow, Wise Man, Anima, Animus and Person; the collective unconsciousness is also present due to the symbolism founded in in mythologies and holy books in the final art works of SEA in the collection called “Unknown Evermind”.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Santiago Paul Erazo Andrade
AU  - Dita Oktaria
AU  - Tri Karyano
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/09/28
TI  - Psychoanalysing Visual Art Creation from the Imagination to Understand the Creative Process
BT  - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Arts and Design Education (ICADE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 467
EP  - 479
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-100-5_61
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-100-5_61
ID  - Andrade2023
ER  -