The influence of the inner child in the creation of expressionist works

Dissertation for Master Degree (MA)

Painting Orientation

Dissertation abstract (including summary, objectives, methods of execution and results obtained):

In modern art, there is a broad current to give credit to imaginations and free and spontaneous imaginations in childhood, which is simultaneously with dreamy aspects.

When we examine painting of the twentieth century, it is We flow towards children's painting. The transformation and evolution of artists gradually gives its extreme result, which can be called the scribbles of childhood.

In this regard, we tried to find the existence of these imaginations and free imaginations of childhood among expressive painters.

In order to achieve this, the series of steps that took place in this research are as follows:

Looking at childhood and the issues influencing the child's creativity. During that period

Talking about the inner child and its history

A short look at the history of expressionism and abstract expressionism and the introduction of several artists of expressionism and abstract expressionism

Introduction and the psychology of the artist's personality

And finally we searched for the inner child in expressionism.

And we came to the conclusion that returning to childhood and finding values ??and to Using them again will definitely bring a new and creative look in the lives of people, especially artists, and these are the artists who can refer to childhood values, including purity and honesty, and most importantly, creativity and spontaneity in visual arts.

Introduction:

The inner child has a powerful presence. It resides in the center of our existence. He constantly explores his environment with enthusiasm. He is aware of his feelings and shows them openly. He cries when he is hurt. He shouts when he is angry. When he is happy, he smiles or laughs from the bottom of his heart. This child is also very sensitive and instinctive. He likes to play and discover, and every moment is fresh and full of surprises: an endless source of creativity and vitality; His existence boils happily from this playfulness.

By knowing the child, we become observers of a new world that all of us adults have had and lived in and probably ignored. This new world is the old world of childhood. The era of immortality and meditation, purity and honesty with colorlessness and openness, freshness and freshness, enthusiasm and warmth, fantasy and creativity, flexibility and intimacy and everything that is of a single color, freedom, growth and freshness. The era when the sources of intuitive intelligence and the power of curiosity are at their maximum and the appetite for knowledge, the desire to understand and the drive to discover and intuition fills the human mind and heart with wonder and amazement.

How to recreate this era in adulthood (especially for artists) and also the effect of this re-creation in the works of artists is the main issue of this research. Creativity in childhood, the stages of intuitive intelligence in a child, the unity of senses in a child's intuitive thinking, the perception of physiognomy in a child are examined, and after that the problem of the inner child is defined precisely and very carefully. Next, because the impact of this period on the life of expressionist artists is discussed, a precise definition of the expressionism style in painting is discussed along with the details and introduction of the artists of this style. Finally, it has been talked about people who have regained their childhood in adulthood, and of course, for which group of people this recovery is more visible and of course more accessible, and finally the impact of this recovery in their lives.

The reason for choosing the topic:

The child was in the word that occupied my mind since my undergraduate days. Also, even though I was amateurish and mundane while drawing my works, my curiosity doubled so that before I stood in front of my white canvas, my mind was busy with various issues, both useful and sometimes delusional, and in short, the mental conflict that everyone is suffering from these days. But as soon as I prepared my tools to start working and stood in front of the canvas, my world changed. A world that did not have the events and issues of so-called adults, was comfortable, full of feelings, and without the slightest obstacle, my inner feelings were expressed in the faces of people in everyday life inside and outside the house. What was more interesting was that everyone around me expressed all those feelings even in painting.What was even more interesting was that everyone around me saw all those emotions, even in my half-finished paintings, or rather felt them. I must also point out that I was a student of improvisational painting, and there was no place for etching and logic in my paintings, and I was also an expressionist. As a result, my thoughts and mood while working on painting with normal times made me curious to get information about it and it became my specialized life issue, and now the time has come to research and get information about this issue and also to share this information with other people. From all kinds of concerns and ups and downs and these factors have assumed the role of desire for people.

Referring to the sensitivities of the childhood world and talking about these sensitivities and the way to deal with them is one of the issues that will be addressed in this research, as well as the existence of such a world in the moments of the life of artists, especially expressionists, and its influence and its penetration in the moment and in the work of an expressionist artist, and the result of this interference, which may be the expression of the artist's feelings. At a moment when, despite living in this industrialized and chaotic world, I unconsciously reach the freedom to express my feelings in another world, away from any fear and panic, and like a child whose lines are a symbol and a sign of great events.

The psychological discussion of the child's world, the examination of children's works, as well as the issue of the inner child and the existence of this personality in adult humans are also other issues that will be discussed in this research.

Objectives of the research:

Investigating the expressive modes of the child in art, especially in painting and finding these expressive modes in the work of expressionist painters.

The importance of the research topic and the motivation for choosing it:

Knowing children and their feelings and being familiar with their language is a matter that, if done in the right way, can help to realize the spirit of children and educate them properly. But we should know that creating the smallest defects in this world may face us with the biggest problems in adulthood, and this is a big reason that leads us to compare and examine these events and their impact in the two worlds of childhood and adulthood.

Research questions and hypotheses:

Examination of children's art and its compatibility with adult art

The role of childhood events and memories of expressionist artists in Creating his works

Research model

Operational definitions of variables and key words:

Knowledge and psychology of the artist - childhood - and key words: inner child, expressionism artist

Research method

Library

Field of research

The field of the psychology of artists, especially dealing with the inner child and expressionism in painting

Society and sample size:

Individual examples of good headline definitions about key issues, but there were very few comparative examples, almost zero.

1-10- Limitations and problems

In this regard, the limitation of resources about children Inside and also the time limit were some of the obvious problems I faced. Chapter Two From childhood to inner child 2-1- Returning to childhood 2-1-1- Psychological review of childhood In order to explain and analyze how to return to childhood and discover the inner "lost unattainable", first of all, one should go to psychological theories; Theories that search for the lasting structure of human personality from the foundation in the invisible structures of childhood. The theorists who interpret the child as the father of the adult and do not consider the process of the mechanism of the transformation of adulthood as anything but the legacies left from the stages of childhood development. But among these contemporary psychoanalysts, there is a differentiated division based on the type of view and reading they have from childhood to adulthood, which makes us familiar with this unknown world.

For example, "Sigmund Freud" [1], the founder of the school of psychoanalysis, insists strongly on the belief that it is not possible to analyze and explain the personality of an adult without accessing the intertwined layers of childhood development.