| Summary: | 碩士 === 嶺東科技大學 === 視覺傳達設計研究所 === 98 === Generally, in the traditional Fukien type architectures, we can often see many exquisite architecture decorations such as stone carvings, wood carvings, and decoration paintings. However, brick carvings are seldom seen in architecture decorations. Although brick carvings are not emphasized by people as wood carvings or stone carvings, it seems that they sustain the native sentiment of Taiwan because the quality of the color about the red brick carving is plain. However, because it's difficult to make, the amount is not much. Nowadays, the Huang-Chi Library in Taichung county could be one of the most outstanding places in the central zone. Accompany the progressing and development of industries and business, the material of architectures and technology changed with each passing day. This traditional industry of brick carving is already downfallen and the technique is almost fail to be handed down from the past generation. Moreover, the materials of the brick carving are easy to be weathered so that it's really hard to preserve. The references which recorded the distinguishing features of the brick carvings are also apparently not enough. Therefore, the author expected that through Huang-Chi Library, we could realize more about the brick carving techniques in Taiwan area. The main purposes of this research are as follows: 1. to investigate and record the dispose places, fabricative technique, and form elements on architecture of the brick carving in Huang-Chi Library. 2. to analyze every type of forms about the composition in paintings and the meanings of the representations. 3. to research the art implications of the brick carvings in Huang-Chi Library.
We generalized the following conclusions in this research: the brick carving in Huang-Chi Library can be divided into four types: sculpted brick frame, sculpted brick baseboard, decoration patterns of frame, and the corners of octagonal windows. 1. sculpted brick frame mainly distributed in the important entrance and exit so that the display space could be larger. The composition in paintings also showed many linear compositions such as vertical, horizontal, or s-curved types, etc. Technically, most of them were pre-oven sculpture and most of the the subject matter symbolizations were the paintings of flowers or birds which represented the scholars and gentlemen or the implied meaning of auspice which prayed for safety. There were following five points about artistic implications: (1). to use the overlaps and parallelograms to show the sense of space. (2). to adopt the asynchronous viewpoints. (3). to decorate as much as possible. (4). to equalize the guests and hosts. (5). mostly to take flowers and birds as the subject matters. 2. sculpted brick baseboard were also a kind of pre-oven sculpture. The type of composition belonged to horizontal composition and it could be divided into several independent sections which are C-type composition with opening upward or downward. 3. Decoration patterns of frame and the corners of octagonal windows are mostly for the purpose of decoration which distributes beside the frames or corners of the brick stripes. The technique belongs to post-oven sculpture and the compositions were mostly left-right or up-down symmetrical types. The subject matters were used very extensively and mostly in pattern lines and implements. The artistic implications are: (1). to transform the complication into simplicity. (2). to adapt between shapes and shapes. (3). to idealize the patterns. (4). the symmetrical beauty sense of types.
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