Emi Uchida is a well-know Japanese artist, she is good at oil painting and line drawing.
In 2008, she had a solo exhibition named "Trace", it was a new step as her previous paintings and drawings, she found her own way to connected them which was by adding charcoal lines on top of her colourful oil paintings. This action made me think of my watercolour works, also fresh and transparent colours, can I follow her? or can I step further?
As an artist, she considered her lines is a trace of both herself and time, "people always erase the moment which is unsatisfied or mistake, when it can't be erase completely people will cross it out with lines, this is a negative to the past, the negative lines may develop to interesting shapes over time", she said this when the "Trace" showed in Shanghai, China in 2011.
Art can be used as a method to find self, her process of laying lines is a way, which represent both her body and soul, her thought of negation also can connected with the Avant-Garde, my previous essay wrote about this art movement, it challenged the subject and the traditional representation.
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REFERENCES
http://onishigallery.com/exhibitions/emi-uchida-trace
http://www.dazeddigital.com/satellitevoices/zh/shanghai/art-design/1920/emi-uchida
Art and Design, 2011, editor Amy Huang, China
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