Abstract:
Watchara Prayoonkum is a sculpturist who creates contemporary sculptures. Watchara is a prominent artist with unique skills. His work is well-known and constantly recognized regarding the concepts and the techniques. Accordingly, the researcher is interested in studying and analysing Watcharas sculptures created in 2002-2016: their contents, forms, concepts given, techniques applied, and methods applied. The study has shown that Watchara relies on 3 forms of methods which are 1) realistic sculpture resembling human anatomy as unique of impressionism molding style 2) hyper-realistic fiberglass wax sculpture and 3) realistic human sculpture mixed with puppet forms that presents realistic human sculpture mix with various artistic styles such as installation art, appropriation art, video art, puppet etc. And presents contents, stories and concepts from the time of important for the period in 2002-2016, with the following main contents: 1) The story of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej (King Rama IX) 2) Art culture mixed with the integration of Eastern culture and Western culture 3) Acts of human between goodness and foulness etc.