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Disobedience
In the eyes of anyone who has read history
Is man's original virtue

 

Forbidden Fruit 禁果

禁果
Forbidden Fruit

 

It is through disobedience that progress has been made
Through disobedience and through rebellion
- Oscar Wilde

 

 

 

何谓叠谱艺术? 

You use a glass mirror to see your face
You use works of art to see your soul
 - George Bernard Shaw -
 

无与伦比的美丽

无与伦比的美丽
Beauty Beyond Comparex

DeepArt(叠谱艺术)是我自创的一门将摄影、绘画和数码技术交织而成的平面图形艺术,由独特的构思、先进的技术、繁重的材料搜集、准确的数字计算和多重复杂步骤结合而成。展现出将东西方文化底蕴融合成一个全新整体的画风,其创作手法偏向西洋抽象格调但整体又保持了浓厚的东方色彩。

每幅作品都有其独特创作原意、内涵和哲理,甚至有些作品非常发人深省,因此将这门艺术定名为 DEEP ART,直解为「有深度、极深邃的艺术」。选用「叠谱」二字除了与英文 DEEP ART 中的 DEEP 谐音外,顾名思义“叠谱”指光谱千变万化层层重叠。在作品中我非常强调复杂的光影层次处理及无穷的色阶变化、配合、呼应和反差,因此每幅创作都非常夺目。不少人追问其制作方法,其实「叠谱」二字早已透露了无限玄机。


创立背景

少年时,我便喜欢绘画,根基不错;年青时爱上摄影,沉迷于捕捉刹那间的震憾。不过我一直认为,摄影在观念上深受绘画影响,甚至可以说摄影在精神上得之於绘画。事实上,摄影本身可以是一种独立的艺术,很多作品呈现出来的「绘画感」并不亚於真正的手工绘画。问题是,摄影始终要先有实体,因此在创作上局限于实物的存在性,不像绘画般可以天马行空、无拘无束地任意发挥。而绘画则是人的手工制作,且人的能力有限,乃至大多数画家的作品始终无法做到摄影那般拥有强烈的光暗对比、丰富的色彩、层次分明的叠影、硬朗的线条与深微的细节等,尤其在质感及光影变幻方面,摄影确实是手工绘画难以企及的。

我是一个绝对唯美的人,曾经设计过很多美轮美奂的图形和获奖网页,加上多年绘画的浸润,也拍摄过无数精彩作品,促使我梦想能够创建一门结合摄影与绘画两者优点的平面艺术,以融合无拘无束的创作思维与实物般的真实感、层次性和质感。希望作品可以用抽象、超现实、似真又幻的方式任意表达,简单来说就是拥有天马行空式的创作思想,同时又具备摄影般高质地的细腻画面。

光学

光学
Optics

记得在2007年3月的某天,经过沉思了一个上午的我,有了《叠谱艺术》的初步构思,非常大胆且似乎可行。自此的行住坐卧中,便开始了孕育DeepArt(叠谱艺术)的漫长路程。历经了四年多后的现在,虽然已有数十副作品出炉,但我至今仍在不断摸索和精益求精中。

您可能会问,既然希望图形成果一如摄影,何必大费周章?干脆对着实物拍个照片不是更好?非也!当我决定创作一门新的平面艺术时,所面对的挑战、困难和压力是无法言喻的。首先要确保作品能人所不能,这样DeepArt(叠谱艺术)才会有它存在的价值与空间,或者说这个定位必须准确。因此,每幅创作所选择的题材都可能是现实中不存在或无法拍摄描绘的,甚至只能运用巨大的想象力去虚拟出来。

试举一个例子,孔雀胆是中国三大奇毒之首,但没有人见过孔雀胆的实物,在创作《孔雀胆》这幅作品时我便天马行空,用血淋淋背景衬托出名贵药壶、黑色死亡之气环绕着深褐色嘴唇、灿烂的悬胆艳丽不可方物却剧毒无比,这一切一切全是隐喻。至于那条色彩艳丽夺目的孔雀尾羽被当作毒物,大家都知道是不可能的,我只是运用一种抽象和形而上学的表现手法来表达而已。

孔雀胆

孔雀胆
Peacock’s Gallbladder


过程与领悟

人对于不熟悉、超越自己理解能力的新奇事物或异文化总会感觉不安。成见与偏见,令人不自觉地产生盲点而不肯尝试去理解,加上不安造成的厌恶反应,最后导致排斥。但人对自己熟悉的事物却感觉自在、不起疑虑,对不熟悉的则误读疏离,思想逐渐狭隘封闭。我们应该尝试接受多元文化的存在,不武断、不以自己概念或观点看待与定义不熟悉的事物,这才有可能了解多元文化与新奇创作而不至落后。 

创作之路通常都是孤独无比的,在DeepArt(叠谱艺术)的实验期间,我遇上无数困难,那些不成熟的作品亦屡屡令我感到气馁,但最让我难以接受的,还是来自摄影圈友的冷嘲热讽。基于DeepArt(叠谱艺术)作品新颖的构思与它独特的抽象感,很多朋友对DeepArt的第一印象都因感觉太前卫而无法接受。我也曾尝试解释每幅作品创作的精神和含意,但他们都拒绝去理解和细看,更武断地恶评为:「歪曲的形像」、「视觉的污染」,甚至用「令人厌恶」四字来形容这些作品。实在说,我是个追求极度唯美的人,作品自然都是唯美居多。因此,就算看不明白画中含意,也不至于到「令人厌恶」的地步罢?可能旁人笑话我这个祖理在发神经、浪费时间,笑话「这个时代,谁还需要另一种创新艺术?」

在那段时期我创作了《异形》:一个外星人为了被地球人类认同接纳,刻意令自己看起来貌似人类。它甚至挂了副太阳眼镜在额头,形象有点滑稽。但可惜无论它如何努力,外星人始终就是外星人的长相,它感到无奈与悲哀,这正是当时我的作品不被认同的心境刻画。其实《异形》这幅作品,根本就是我的自画像。

之后努力创作、推广了两年,期间去过数次香港之外,更偏游上海、广州、北京等大城市,历尽千辛万苦。正当开始有点眉目时,身体却变得越来越衰弱,直至最后总是感觉寸步难行,呼吸困难。2010年十月去医院检查,医生证实我患了肾衰歇,已经是末期,没有办法医治,从此只能依靠血液透析维持生命。也就是说,从此以后我离不开新加坡,不能够再到其它国家推行《叠谱艺术》了。这个精心孕育出来的孩儿要夭折了。当听到消息时真的如晴天霹雳,整个人傻了。之后像掉入了死胡同,我的精神与身体均衰弱至极,终日自伤自怜。幸好家人与好友司元不断的细心照顾与鼓励,头半年的黑暗期终於安然渡过。

蜕变(部份截图)
蜕变(部份截图)


在一个清晨当我细看再看早期的作品《蜕变》时,突然被它深深感动,继而大彻大悟。《蜕变》创作原意为「成功不是必然」(Success is never a certainty)。在画中的蝴蝶由於时机尚未成熟便破茧,导致一条腿没有成功进化,最后蝴蝶因蜕变失败而死亡,当时的创作灵感就来自这则伊索寓言。为了表现那条没进化的腿,我在事前策划了好几天来研究如何营造。也实在好笑,每次欣赏这幅作品时,总会对自己的创意与能力充满佩服之情。当时我领悟到身为一个虔诚的艺术创作者,实在不应该奢望人人能够明白和欣赏自己的作品,奢望自己一定会成功。既然每个人的文化背景、审美眼光、接受能力等都不同,DeepArt(叠谱艺术)作品最终能否得到大众认同,我是否有病,根本不应该成为我继续创作与否的考虑条件。在自然世界中成功的蜕变都并非必然,同样地,DeepArt(叠谱艺术)就像其它任何人的创作又或像做其它任何事情一样,都绝对没有谁能肯定“做了就必然成功”。既然如此,自已又何必烦恼它成长与否,或别人的看法呢?上天既然赐给我创作的天赋与才华,我应该把DeepArt(叠谱艺术)当为天职,只要全心全力地去创作,每一幅作品都将会是我的杰作,它们就是我的成就!


结语

无可置疑,DeepArt(叠谱艺术)创作是极其严谨的,绝非随手得来;每幅作品首先要有灵感与主题;所有策划、构思、制作步骤都要经过深思熟虑,才能开始创作。例如在作品《受孕》中我模仿“X光片”的效果,单就光影处理与营造那精液的飞溅效果便花了四天时间。更多情况下,经过反复尝试所创作的图画,其效果不能达到要求的都一律删除。

受孕

受孕
Impregnation

那些能在画廊中展出的数十幅作品都是经过严格挑选才得以留存,每幅作品都有其特殊含意。为了让大家比较容易了解作品的创作原意与内涵,每幅图画后都附有一篇与之对应的《DeepArt鉴赏文》以供细细品味,仅做观赏者的参考用。

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Chocolate Life

巧克力人生
Chocolate Life
Life is like a box of chocolates
You never know what you’re gonna get

- Winston Groom -
Author of “Forresst Gump”

Introduction (continued)

I believed that it would be always better to be a first rate version of yourself rather than a second rate version of someone else, however, the journey of art creation, especially with something unfamiliar to the majority, can be unimaginably lonely and tumultuous.

 

Alien

异形

Alien
Adorn me a mask of
Good faith and familiarity
Such that I would not
Offend the xenophobes

- ckjoe 祖理 -

 

 

During the incubation period of DeepArt I had faced a very difficult time. Due to the unique concept and its extraordinary, abstract and surreal finishing, instead of support, I received mostly only derisive, sarcastic and unfriendly comments from many friends and relatives. Generally, they believed I was squandering time because nobody needed any new form of art. Even though I felt my art work are generally aesthetic, naysaying statements like “the graphics are nothing but twisted and distorted images” were thrown to me. I was even slated for producing poisonous artwork that contaminate the eyes, and I could not express my indignation at having my work criticized as “disgusting”. I must confess, I had been sorely hurt by those disturbing and discouraging statements. As there was no support I could lean on, in a few occasions I had almost my journey hopeless, and gave up on it.

However, during this dark period I created some of my most beautiful and meaningful compositions, like ”Unfinished”, ”Wealth”, “Gold Cage”, “Genie”, etc. all of which are now highly praised by many. “Alien” was one of these early works and it thoroughly reflects my state of mind at that time.

Dying Alien 300
The Alien is dying (Not for sale)

The message I was trying to convey in this creation is - it is a tragedy to be different, in an unfriendly society full of bigots, fearful of something beyond their knowledge, something unknown. At the end, even if he was not a dissenter in any way, the alien remains excluded and will always be repelled. In order to survive, he disguises himself and tries to blend into the crowd. Eager to be recognized, he was willing to do whatever was needed - weirdly shaped sunglasses on his forehead included, in hope that it would make him look more ‘human’. The silliness of it all was intended, injected in order to create a greater mournful, tragic feel of the whole incident. The depressed look on the alien expresses his desperation, and the realization of the inevitable - No matter how hard he tried, he is still an alien.

Indeed, it was a self-portrait.

 

Wind Flower

The vicissitudes of life is often unpredictable. The turning point came in a few years ago. During one of my frequent trip to Hong Kong I presented my works to an old friend from Los Angeles. After viewing my work, he showed great interest in presenting DeepArt to the US. Through his connections I got to know a publisher and surprisingly, my works were highly praised by this gentleman, despite it being his first encounter with anything like them, and he agreed that the market potential could be enormous in both western and eastern worlds, if substantial marketing and promotion were given. Whether or not they meant it, I was truly grateful for their courtesy.

Due to this drastic incident my confidence was vigorously restored. Their encouragement also triggered the inspiration of my second generation of DEEP ART creations. Consequently, many masterpieces were created somewhat seamlessly and miraculously in the following months. They include “Impregnation”, “Time Express”, “Wings of Icarus”, “Souls” and “Solitary Waltz”.

Then I spent the next two years working hard promoting DeepArt. During this period I have been travel, beside many times to Hong Kong, also major cities in China like Shanghai, GuangZhou, Beijing, etc. to explore the business possibilities. However, since November 2009 I began coughing and eventually it became a very se rious problem. I'd consulted different doctors and took different medications but the situation didn't improve much. Most of the time I felt tired easily and always felt breathless.

 

Limitless label

limitless 360

Limitless Universe

The human mind is not capable of
Grasping the Universe
We are like a little child entering
A huge library
The walls are covered to the ceilings with
Books in many different tongues
The child knows that someone
Must have written these books

- Albert Einstein -

 

During a Beijing trip in October 2010 I became so weak that I could not even manage to walk short distances. After numerous blood tests back in Singapore doctors confirmed that I am suffering from kidney failure and it was already in an advanced stage. There is simply no cure. The failure may be due to long-term toxication from high-blood tension medications. Anyway, it is too late to find out and there is nothing much doctors could do, dialysis is the only treatment to keep me alive for the time being, transplant is the only solution but the waiting list is somewhat like over 9 years in Singapore. By that time, I may be already too old to start a new life.

Nowadays I am having close to 5 hours dialysis three times a week. During the first few months I was very weak and did not work at all. I am slowly picking up now but what kills me is, I cannot leave the country. Does that mean DeepArt has come to its end without even being started? Whenever I thought of this, I got upset.

One morning when I looked very closely at my work “Metamorphosis” just completed the night before, suddenly I was deeply touched by the greatness of my own creation. In order to express the concept of “Haste makes Waste”, this composition was neatly planned such that one leg of the butterfly was in its pre-developed stage. It was so perfectly made that I cried out in admiration at the synergy of my creativity and the underlying intention within the art piece. Then, in an epiphany, I finally grasped the truth that being an devoted artist, I cannot, and should not expect my creations to be well known and wholly understood or appreciated by everyone. Whether or not they are recognized by the majority in future should not be my prior concern. As long as they were created, and done so with my best, wholehearted efforts, they are my fulfillment, my achievements, my masterpieces.

 

蜕变

Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

Success
Is never a certainty

 

 

I realized that in nature, complete metamorphosis is never a certainty; similarly, in life, DeepArt, like any form of new creation, is not an inevitable success. So why should I be so bothered about its recognition? Its future? I must shake off the shadows of criticisms, my illness, the chances of success, etc. because they actually do not mean anything.

Since God granted me the talent to create, I think I should work harder than ever and aim for the acme. Even if it may mean nothing in this limitless universe, it is my obligation. As George Bernard Shaw also said,

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable
but more useful than a life spent doing nothing
I want to be all used up when I die

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关于祖理

 

Only great passions can elevate the soul to great things
 - Denis Diderot -

 

 

joelee0140203DeepArt(叠谱艺术)创作者祖理(ck.joeLee)出生香港,现居新加坡。他唯美感性、学贯中西;从小在音乐与绘画两方面尽显天份。少时在英国留学八年,毕业后二十多年来主要从事与音乐相关的行业,包括作曲与录制音乐,深受各类音乐特别是古典与爵士乐的熏陶,思想充满艺术灵感,对人生哲理常有独到见解,在其DeepArt中的一些作品灵感就源于聆听音乐时的启发。

祖理是位曾赢得众多奖项的网页设计师、乐评家及专栏作家。他除了是名资深音乐人外,也是一位极有创意的优秀摄影师,他在网络世界中最为人熟悉与赞赏的就是他那些精湛的摄影作品,曾发表的音乐与摄影作品被誉为「能触及人类灵魂深处的巨作」。

他从小喜欢绘画,加上多年的摄影熏染,令他坚信自己能把两种不同的艺术取长补短、兼收并蓄,在平面艺术世界创立出一门奇异的崭新艺术。自2007年起,他历经艰苦终於完成了新艺术的基本构思,加之在过去的几年中一直不断改进和创新,最后DeepArt(叠谱艺术)诞生了,六十多幅作品终於问世。

虽然DeepArt(叠谱艺术)作品涉及范畴广泛,但内涵始终以导人向善、引人励志为核心。祖理对佛教充满敬仰,常叹自己能力有限,总希望能够藉由作品的精神力量帮助到别人,能对社会有些微贡献。无论您对他的创作风格和思想内涵是否认同,恳请您花些时间到画廊走走,观摩一下DeepArt作品、读读鉴赏文,希望这些作品能带给您美好的精神体验,甚至带来您与创作者祖理之间一个心灵交流的机会

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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