Shi Lu's Painting "Window"

This article tries to divide Shi Lu 's art development into four stages:before 1959, during 1959～1964 years, during 1965～1970 years, post～1971 and takes "the window" as the intrinsic clue through the four stages. "The window", regarded as the functionality form structure, plays different roles in its different artistic stages; also, it reveals Shi Lu's unconscious state of mind and unfolds his life course.Based on Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, this paper decodes "the window" in Shilu's drawings and presents his drawing works as the followingBefore 1959, "the window" functions as "screen" in Shilu's drawings and demonstrates Shilu's state of self-sufficiency as a narrator.During 1959～1964,"The window" on one hand, made audience's eyes move in order from pictures to pictures and achieved "seaming" which should be expressed in drawings in the referential sense;on the other hand, ""the window" in Shilu's works tended to be of double functions--"screen" and "defense", catching audience's eyes and at the same time turning them back. The double function of "window" is similar to the "illusion" in Lacan's theory, which covered up the subject's "trauma" and "seamed" others'will into the subject, which shows Shilu's state of mind in this period covered by a series of complex identities.During 1965～1970,"the window" experienced a series of unusual changes and eventually led to the disappearance of "frame". Then, the terrible scenes covered by "the window" permeated in the pictures and caused the chaos of signifiers. And it is the period when Shilu's psychiatric illness was the most serious.After 1971, "the window", in Shilu's reminiscence, was a "signifier pillar" in the state of chaos and came back to pictures, which reestablished its balance with the outer relations. The development of "the window" had the tendency of "net"which amplified the function of screen and defense of "net". The audience's eyes encountered both "net" and the blankness in "net". The eyes, lost in the repetition of network structures, could not be withdrawn. "Net" demonstrated Shilu's state of mind after 1971:with the help of "signifier pillar" found in "symptoms", he rebuilt self psychological balance but he could not get rid of the contradictory state harassed by "symptoms"...