Surface and Deeper Meaning: Some Hermeneutic Questions in an Intercultural Perspective

The question of a deeper meaning of artworks is a hermeneutic question. If the artworks in question have been created by an artist of a different culture and artworld, the hermeneutic question becomes an intercultural question. And if the artworks have been created by an artist, whose education took place not only in his own country and culture, but also in foreign countries with their own cultural heritages, to which the artist feels a deep inclination, then the intercultural question becomes part of a globalized culture with its polymorphic structures and products. In my opinion, the work of Hsien-Yueh Lin is embedded in a globalized culture, centred in Taiwan. Therefore the question of a deeper meaning along the metaphorical question for the actual roots of his artworks leads to at least five sub-questions: Does the root of Lin's art lie in Taiwanese culture? Or in his genius? In his traumatic personal experiences? In the essence of the things painted? In art as such? Only two of these of course interrelated questions could be commented on. First, and in greater detail, the root in Taiwanese culture, second, and rather shortly, the root in art as such. Although hermeneutic questions transcend the sphere of what can be seen on the canvasses, they try to deepen the understanding of the visual surface of Lin's paintings.

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Hermeneutics, Meaning ； Difference of Attitudes Towards Art ； Culture ； Cultural Identity ； Globalization of Culture ； Form and Content of Art ； Beauty ； Aesthetic Categories ； Aesthetic Experience ； Artworld ； Subjectiv

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