Mr. Huang's family was not wealthy when he was young. After the Japanese colonial education, he entered to Normal school, and got support from the officer of Taiwan Government to go to Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko to learn sculpture with public funds. Mr Hung was Taiwan's first artist whose works won Japanese recognition. Besides his efforts, the political and educational systems of Japanese occupation period brought his outstanding life experiences.
Mr. Huang created the works for Japan Empire Exhibition, accepted the order from Japan royal family, and extended his artificial field to general life hood to customize the portrait and artificial decoration for Japanese and Taiwan gentries. This led to various public arts. However, he personally regarded himself as a weird man because he had no time to have interaction with others. If he was not good at social relationship, how could he get financial funds to support his creation? In the records of Taiwan Daily News, Mr. Huang attended many public social activities to enhance his social relationship. He also made friends with some officers of Taiwan Government, businessmen and artists from Japan and Taiwan. Since 1927, Taiwan Daily News had kept assisting selling his works. It was the beginning of artificial work commercialization.
The transition of conservation and modernity not only reflected on his works but also influenced of establishment his social relationship and development of his work creation. This article, in a social history perspective is to review Mr. Huang again, and analyze Taiwan's cultural development; hope to compensate the insufficiency of existing researches.
Keywords
Huang Tu-Shui, The Japanese Colonial Period , Empirical Fine Arts Exhibition, Taiwan Daily News, Art Sponsoring
雕塑中的「物」與「物性」——論英國雕塑家菲利浦‧金2014 倫敦戶外個展The Object and Objecthood of Sculpture: British Sculptor Phillip King's Outdoor Exhibition in London, 2014
摘要
2014年6月 Masterpiece London 藝術博覽會慶祝英國藝術家菲利浦.金(Phillip King) 的八十歲大壽而舉辦其戶外雕塑個展,其中有來自臺灣苗栗東鋼藝術家駐廠創作的成果。九件展出作品中,可見藝術家用色彩與構成來對抗重力進而達到元素間的平衡,創作更從「幻象主義」逐漸轉向材料的物理特質。他的雕塑牽涉了「物性」,陳述了對臺座、尺寸、周邊環境與光線互相關聯的問題。本文探討英國新雕塑的背景與重要性,由美國1960年代藝術批評來理解菲利浦.金雕塑中的「物」與「物性」,研究其雕塑作品隱含的創作脈絡。
關鍵字
菲利浦.金、英國新雕塑、物、物性
Abstract
In the year of Phillip King CBE PPRA's 80th birthday, an outdoor exhibition of his sculpture was displayed at Masterpiece London in Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea, June 2014. Among the nine works being in the show, the latest ones were made in the Tung-Ho Steel Factory during King's artist residency in Miaoli, Taiwan. The sculptures were made using color and construction that freed the work from a sense of gravity. All elements reached balance with his works turning illusionism to physicality of materials. His sculptures are a statement on the problem of the relationship between the plinth, scale, context and light as they have reference the problem of "Objecthood". The study explores the background and importance of British New Sculpture, and examines the influence of Object and Objecthood on King's sculptures through the connection with American Art Criticism of the 1960s. This will enable an understanding of the creative context behind the work.
Keywords
Phillip King, British New Sculpture, Object, Objecthood
When Conceptual art was not as flourish as how it is today, Giuseppe Penone (1947-) was a prophet already who had liberated sculpture from nature with enlightenment. Instead of following prevailing minimalism or metaphysical art during that period, Giuseppe Penone sought for inspiration through his personal life experiences and poetic sensibility within literature. He not only also applied tautology and creative criticism to excavate truth from substance of nature, but also reverse stuffy definition of existence and nothingness. Giuseppe Penone brought enlightenment thinking of contemporary art up.
In this paper, I try to analyze the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone who was the youngest member of Arte Povera. As sculpture had always been his core rhythm, I first introduce his multi-oriented sculpture following his sequence of the concept, and then analyze how he became a pioneer of concept art through creating a new possibility from the tradition and the reality in a world of art dominated by flouring minimalism. Secondly, I attempt to study Giuseppe Penone's achievement through connecting it with Daoism and Chinese bonsai art. Until now western scholars still couldn't discuss about his art through in-depth perspective of eastern world. We however can find the concept of Daoism within his work. Therefore, I try to find the relationship between Daoism and his perspective of art. At the end, we could more clearly and deeply understand his outstanding mind by comparing with eastern culture, and find what evokes Concept art, Body Art, and Process Art. It is possible to inspire eastern artists to furthermore examine their own traditional philosophy in reverse and create possibility of new amazing art.
Keywords
Giuseppe Penone, arte povera, animism, chinese bonsai art, Daoist aesthetics
Taiwanese ought to be familiar with memorial statues, for the reason that there had been a lot of them sculptured and founded during the period of martial law. Furthermore, a lot of memorial statues still remains until now. Those memorial statues were mostly dedicated to important political figures; thus, in accordance with the common associations and comprehension, people oftentimes simply draw equal signs between those statues and politics.
However, the established memorial statues were not that simple nor did possess equivalent qualities of integrities. In fact, political figures of that era were not the only choice of subject matter in the field of memorial statues. During this period in the memorial statues history, a new series of innovative and unique artworks took "dedicator"-who had sacrificed themselves to help and rescue others-as subject matter had emerged. These virtuous men were originally merely laymen who were remotely connected to governmental local authorities or even hardly possessed direct association with grand narrative schemes who always emphasized on the history of nationhood. Nevertheless, these brave virtuous men were willing to sacrifice themselves to help and save others. Thus, the nation built memorial statues to show their appreciations, honors and commemorations towards these heroic virtuous men. Such phenomenon was rarely to be seen in the development of memorialization history and quite different from the conservative perspective-which used to regard memorial statues as common practice to show deepest and greatest admiration towards leaders from the authoritarian period.
Hence, this study applies art history's vantage point to probe into essence of aesthetics and forms that can be derived from this series of these unique statues; furthermore along with the historical viewpoint, this research is also delving into influences and inspiration of these memorial statues towards entire society during the whole period, and eventually making an attempt to make an approach to historical interpretation. This type of unique artworks is also expected to provide possibilities open to another path of new studies in the future, as well as reflections of plausible problems induced by reductionism and general discussion discourses proposed by the preceding theorists.
Keywords
memorial statue, dedicator, moral discourse, mythology
In the early stage soon after Kuomingdong government retreated from China to Taiwan, a series of literary and art movement with the "fighting spirit" (or military literary and art) was introduced and greatly promoted across the island with both social and governmental propaganda machine. The literary and art movement with fighting spirit had become the main stream of literary and art at that time.
As we look back, sixty years later, at the literary policy and the artistic expression at that time, and from these special topics and contents of the art work, we can look into objectively the humanity of that society and examine the conflicting and relationship between the politics and art during this period of time.
This research covers thirty five years of Taiwan literary and art from 1949 to 1984. It is divided into four periods according to the development of literary and art policy and its influence on the society. The political atmosphere then, the direction of the policy, the actual activity of art and artistic expression exhibited by art works are covered in this work. The neglected art history of this period has been re-examined with an objective and broad viewpoint. It is hoped that the readers will look at this work with a greater and broader view in analyzing and judging the art history of this period.
Keywords
literary and art with fighting spirit (or military literary and art), literary and art policy, fighting for the survival of the country with art, cultural purging movement, new military literary and art movement
In Taiwan, the Folk Woodcarving development which is rooted among people lives reflects civic cultures and becomes a kind of artistic aspect. With the variation of society status under interlaced cultural connotations, the "traditional woodcarving" and the "modern woodcarving" are gradually departed in the contemporary art today. The "traditional aesthetic value" of Folk Woodcarving is conversed to form the "modernization", while traditional woodcarving skills and conceptions are converted into extrinsic formalization of "modern woodcarving." The major discourse of contemporary woodcarvings in Taiwan consists of materials, art cross sections, and pursuits of mental consciousness. It is the "all new pattern" transformed from the "modern woodcarving" that is still created by the modern ways. Styles of manufacturers may be more vivid, exhibiting the responses of emotion and reflecting the raises of manufacturers' self-esteems. The creators reconstruct their knowledge and traditional beliefs, and then produce works that represent more "selfness" and "freedom" by rigorous processes. We can find different periods and phenotypes of "historic progress" in the Folk Woodcarving with gradual developments of ideology and time.
In this study, we used modern aesthetic theories to recollect the convention and the connotation of modernity on traditional woodcarvings. In addition, the Folk Woodcarving in Taiwan were taken as examples to conduct the research on transformation and convention. We wanted to explore why modern woodcarvings have presented a phenomenon of "metamorphism?" or why them decreased from traditional factors and how they convened into so-called the "modern woodcarving?" With analyses and investigations on contemporary woodcarving styles, we categorized the manifestations and the connotation characteristics of contemporary woodcarvings. Moreover, the "discourse of modern woodcarvings" in Taiwan was elaborated to witness the diversities and creativities of woodcarvings in Taiwan nowadays.
Keywords
modernity, convention, cross section, modern woodcarving discourse in Taiwan
The objects of this thesis are about the history of the Taiwan sculptures that use stone as their major material. However, since the 1980s, mixed materials have gained popularity in Taiwan; therefore, this thesis will encounter definition problems if take artists who only use single material as samples. To avoid these problems this thesis will adopt those who use mixed material but major materials are still stone as research objects. In this definition, this thesis will survey the production, marketing or distribution channel, education, consecration, and market of stone sculpture during the period from 1980 to 2003.
In chapter one, I will discuss the definition of the stone sculpture and the beginning of the Taiwan sculpture history. Second chapter will survey the sculpture history of Taiwan from the end of World WarⅡto the 1980s. Then in the third chapter, I will survey the sculpture history of Taiwan from the 1980s to 2003. Chapter four will describe the sculpture styles after the 1980s and discuss development problems of the Taiwan stone sculpture.
Keywords
sculpture, stone sculpture, Taiwan stone sculpture history
重複的多樣性——雕塑複製品的美學價值The Diversity of Repetition—Esthetical Value of Sculptural Duplicate
摘要
本文試圖探索雕塑之本質,特別聚焦於採用「塑造」與「翻模」方法製作而成的雕塑。 由於上述模製方法有意增加雕塑品的數量、重製其形體,此種複製的目的隱藏著複雜的作品特性。研究內容首先由複製品的歷史以及法國羅丹美術館(Musée Rodin)違法鑄造作品造成的醜聞來分析,企圖為青銅雕塑偽作下定義;其次回顧雕塑家奧古斯特.羅丹(Auguste Rodin,1840-1917)的創作方式,並參照美國藝術評論家羅莎琳.克勞絲(Rosalind E. Krauss,1941-)的主張,解釋雕塑的複數性特徵;文末從美學觀點重申雕塑的偽作與雕塑複製的價值。藉此研究的結果,期望能進一步認識雕塑傳統,在創作上益加準確地運用雕塑語彙。
關鍵詞
鑄造、複製品、美學
Abstract
The research aims to discuss the essence of sculpture refers to the methods of molding and casting.
The study would make a definition for duplicate by analyzing the content includes the history of duplicate and the scandal that Musée Rodin illegally casted bronze sculpture. By consulting the ways Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) composed his original works and the art critics Rosalind E. Krauss (1941-) claimed, the study would expound the features of multiplicity that sculpture owns. Besides, the research would also ingeminate the value of both duplicate and reputation according to esthetics.
When inspecting the human history and pick those moments as cherishing the memory of from it, we find a kind of possibility about the strength of commemorating sculpture, which specified the disappearance emotion of human. As time goes on, these objects and things evolve as a kind of possibility of exploring oneself; besides having the function of preserving memories in the past time, they are the reclamation of forms in a bigger facet. This text attempts to analyze in the space-time marks of the sculpture monument, concludes a kind of transition of the meaning, and wishes to excavate out the depth possible energy which was buried in forms and contents as the way of viewing commemorative sculptures' development to show another aspect.
Keywords
memorial sculpture, spirituality, the faith of the times, real, space
Ju Ming was born in Miaoli, Tongsiao, from a traditional wood carving master origin, to become student of Yuyu Yang, and then evolved into the artist's process of Taiwan's representation has been well known. Ju Ming background coupled with the rise of the specificity of art, so naturally become a legend of the narrative pattern of the source, making the eyes of each person Ju Ming is a time-series shape with layers of stuffing from the image so that those people who are already familiar with the figure may seem to blur together instantly.
Ju Ming from the first solo exhibition in 1976 to become famous since, to date, more than thirty years, in view of the current Ju Ming related research has yet to have a comprehensive review. This paper is therefore the hope of return to the starting point to explore the historical context of implied, but also sorted out the period of study for the main axis of Ju Ming, the era of the Ju Ming is the focus on the placement? Also what their characteristics, have lived in the Ju Ming discusses the relationship between the sequence of text, will help us as a Ju Ming discusses the basis for the development of artistic career, as well as the future for the Study of Ju Ming-related writing and argumentation perspective will gradually clear, physiognomy.
Also hope that eventually the accumulated and deepening understanding of the Ju Ming and understanding to enable us to clarify and closer to their true face.
Keywords
Ju Ming, Modern Sculpture, Taichi Series, Living World Series, Art as a spiritual discipline