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The creative study primarily aims to explore the means by which to discern the characteristics of mediocrity through the form of artistic creation by examine the characteristics of vulgar through media manipulation and consumption in the contemporary society focusing on the author’s firsthand experience of the real life and current events, and to further decipher the characteristics how mass media manipulates the time, and actively creates a popular culture, manipulates the collective consensus to achieve the behavioral mode of consumption and being consumed. Being in the phenomenon, the author is keenly aware of the foresaid phenomenon, and the blind pursuit, indiscrimination that followed, or even to the extent involuntariness, and has thus attempted to observe and reflect on the society’s cultural phenomena through the process of creation, and in turn to examine the elements that draw the author to be interested in the topic of vulgar ; nevertheless, with vulgar elements abound to numb the public’s senses through visualization, fueling it to become the spiritual core of the mass, popular culture, it therefore renders how best to decipher the characteristics of vulgar to become a subject the author aims to explore.
The creative study encompasses five major chapters and sections: Chapter one pertains to the creative study’s motives and objectives by exploring the correlation of the visual symbols, objects and desires created by the modern popular culture and consumption, in an attempt to discern the elements that draw the masses to mediocrity with passion and fascination; Chapter two covers the creative theoretic basis broaching from the subject of popular culture and cultural consumption, and in turn exploring the core essence of media consumption and the cultural structure of vulgar, combining also the perspectives of relevant artistic schools and artisans, with which to explain the essence of the author’s creative works; Chapter three covers the creative concept and realization, which primarily explores desire and the societal facets, and in turn to review the inert metamorphosis, and also to explain the creative form and techniques; Chapter four provides a work description, which is divided into four major series, consisting of the “Desire” series, the “Commercialization” series, the “Faith” series, and the “Popular toys” series; Chapter five provides a conclusion, which summarizes the results of the creative result, and the author’s reflection and outlook on the subject.
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