Disguise

作品名称：伪装
媒介：油画
创作时间：2017

作品说明

《伪装》探讨了表象与真实情绪之间的裂隙，一个笑脸的形象在画布上极度夸张，却在色彩、笔触和构图中透露出一丝扭曲与不安。这不仅是一个微笑，而是一张被撕裂、重塑、覆盖的面具，在伪装的喜悦之下，隐藏着难以言说的情绪。

作品使用了厚重的油彩肌理，以不稳定的笔触塑造出背景的流动感，使整个画面处于一种模糊和不确定的状态。第一幅作品中的笑脸色彩斑斓，似乎充满生机，但溢出的线条和不规则的细节让它显得虚假甚至腐败。第二幅则转向黑白灰调，笑脸的轮廓更加锐利，眼神带有一种不安的凝视，仿佛在警惕着什么，或是即将吞噬现实。

这一系列作品意在质问：当我们微笑时，我们是否真的快乐？当社会鼓励我们保持阳光时，个体内心的暗流是否就此消失？ “微笑”是一种文化规范，也是一种社会期待，但当它被无限放大、扭曲、变形时，它依然是真实的吗？

Title: Disguise
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2017

Artist Statement

Disguise explores the gap between appearance and genuine emotion—a smile that is exaggerated to the point of distortion, revealing a sense of unease beneath the surface. This is not just a grin; it is a fractured, reshaped, and concealed mask, hiding an unspoken internal world beneath its seemingly joyful expression.

Using thick layers of oil paint, the piece builds a textured, unstable background, creating a sense of fluidity and uncertainty. In the first painting, the colorful smile appears lively, yet its irregular lines and overflowing forms betray a sense of artificiality and decay. The second painting shifts into monochrome tones, where the smile becomes sharper, its gaze uneasy—watchful, or perhaps on the verge of consuming reality itself.

This series questions: Are we truly happy when we smile? When society encourages us to maintain a cheerful façade, do the inner currents of our emotions simply vanish? A smile is both a cultural expectation and a social norm, but when it is exaggerated, distorted, and manipulated, does it remain authentic?