Words of praise, this is a miracle created by subconscious manipulation, which can never be imitated. The relationship between creativity and subconsciousness is inseparable. The quantity and quality of subconscious accumulation are closely related to the level of creativity. The information that people have received for a long time through the absorptive functions of vision, hearing and feeling is processed by the brain and then stored in the cells of the subconscious mind. Once something from the outside world touches the consciousness valve of the brain, the subconscious mind will continuously emerge. . As a result, what we call "inspiration" will appear. When writing, there will be "a surge of ideas", when writing poetry, there will be "a surge of poetry", when painting, there will be a "magic pen", etc.
Logical thinking is manifested in reasoning about specific things, and it is attached to one reality after another. However, image thinking itself has the characteristics of fantasy, and the subconscious mind plays a huge role in the formation of fantasy. effect. We can find primitive traces of fantasy activities in children. The thing that children like to do the most and that can make them concentrate the most is games. The behavior of every playing child is identical to that of an imaginative artist. Picasso once said: Every child is an artist. When a child plays, he or she unconsciously and subconsciously creates a world of his or her own, or he or she rearranges everything in the world according to his or her own wishes. The child is very serious when playing, pouring his considerable emotions and knowledge of the world into it. The artist is just like a child playing games. He also creates a fantasy world seriously and pours rich emotions into it. The artistic creation of an adult artist is like a continuation and extension of childhood play. Children may not know the outcome at the beginning of the game; similarly, artists often face a blank canvas and do not know the outcome of their creation (purposeful paintings mostly become formal production rather than creation). For example, the abstract master Zao Wou-Ki said when describing his creative process: "I never conceive in advance, I don't draw sketches, I start from nothing, and I have no purpose." Tàpies described his creative process this way: " At that time, I couldn't understand why I painted like this. I just couldn't help but paint according to my feelings. "...It can be seen that these masters were in an unconscious state when they created. In fact, almost most masters have said: If they know in advance what they want to do. Painting is boring. Creation in a subconscious state leads to an irrational automatic expression process. Research shows that once certain conditions are met, a natural expression will emerge during the creative process. Klee's works are as effortless as speaking and writing. He believes: "Emotions must carry out their own work without being disturbed by consciousness." When we appreciate the works of masters such as Klee and Miro, we all have the same feeling as watching children's graffiti; innocence, frankness, and a kind of spiritual ease. This kind of ease comes from the relaxation of the artist's mood when painting and the unobstructed expression of his subconscious mind.
Just like untitled music, many paintings are also improvisations revealed by the subconscious, without themes or ideas. Let’s look at Zao Wou-Ki’s works again, which are completely unconscious expressions. His paintings cannot be given exact titles but can only be titled X Year A question!" (Zhao Wuji). His paintings give people great shock. The magnificent and wanton sway in the paintings creates unrepeatable effects. The careless brushwork blends the spirit of the East and the light and color of the West. They are full of heartfelt poetry and abstract images. It encompasses the vastness of the universe and the tinyness of grass and trees. Claude Roy commented on Zhao's works: "There is not a painting by Zao Wou-Ki that cannot be carefully analyzed, even though it clearly ignores any representation and elegantly avoids all representations limited by reality. Here, you can The visual interpretation of emotions is like reading a book with the eyes. Among modern paintings, there are few paintings that can provide more sources of dreams, greater freedom, and a broader world than Zao Wou-ki's paintings." Zao Wou-ki was talking about it. In his works, he has repeatedly used mysterious words such as "I don't know", "I didn't think about anything", "naturally", etc., which proves that his brain thinking cannot be controlled by subjective consciousness during the painting process.
British esthetician Herbert Reed pointed out in an article on Picasso: "There is no doubt that Picasso relied on his subconscious mind to conceive images at a special stage of his painting creation. (See Illustration 2) We have already read Picasso's own description of the painting process of some of his paintings, which clearly show that he was in a trance state while painting and that he accepted what came from his trance state. The phenomenon he discovered." Like many artists, Picasso was not an intellectual creator, as was evident through his series of conversations. Picasso's famous saying is "I don't explore, I discover." The difference between his later paintings and abstractionism is that his paintings are derived from the observation of nature, that is, they "reproduce" specific things. This kind of representation is often a distorted representation and an exaggerated representation. Such representations are often grotesque female bodies with puzzling head connections and dislocations.
The colors in these compositions are clear and striking, and the compositions are often simple and based on architectural principles. This work of art cannot be rationally explained without the theory that imagination originates from the subconscious. When Picasso painted these paintings, he was clearly in a state of daydreaming, a state of ecstasy, perhaps self-hypnosis. What he expresses is "a sudden flash of light that appeared before me." He did not know in advance what he was going to paint, he had not decided what colors to use, he did not want to do anything, and he did not seek to do anything. He allowed his feelings to run free, painting in a trance, but this trance had a sensitivity, the visual clarity of a dream.
What we focus on in this article is the impact of subconscious instinct on painting creation. At the same time, we do not deny the role of consciousness on creative activities. However, "creation" is a complex process that cannot be explained clearly using psychological methods alone. Psychology can only use the method of purposeful behavior to explain all human actions, but the ever-present subconscious mind is unpredictable. It sometimes encourages and sometimes inhibits people's creative behavior. Returning to past feelings—even childhood memories and fantasies—may allow the artist to creatively synthesize various perceptions or perceptions. It is creativity, not pathology, that creates the form of art and embodies its perfection. This article mainly analyzes the role of subconsciousness in painting creation. Of course, humans are different from animals. They cannot perform certain behaviors based solely on instinct and subconsciousness. In society, everyone must be bound by morals, ethics and laws. For example, if a hungry person is faced with a rich food that does not belong to him, his instinct and subconscious desire to eat are suppressed by social consciousness. This desire may be released through his dreams; and the artist's subconscious mind in the creative process is naturally Exposure is a pure and advanced spiritual activity, where imagination replaces rigorous logical thinking. "Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, but imagination is infinite" (Einstein). A large number of facts show that the subconscious mind is an important factor that cannot be ignored in painting creation, and it is also an entry point for interpreting mysterious creativity. If there is no inspiration in artistic creation, if one does not lose his ordinary reason and fall into madness, and if there is no subconscious eruption, there will be no creativity.