Cultural Landscape on Tamsui as Representational Space of Painting

• Main Authors: Yi-Fu Liu, 劉奕甫
• Other Authors: Nai-Chi Yeh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51839100209222086984

碩士 === 華梵大學 === 建築學系碩士班 === 99 === Landscape is the medium between humanity and nature, also self and other. Through artistic creation, landscape can be reproduced as a cultural product. Work of art crystallizes the cultural significance of landscape. Throughout the history of art, aesthetic analysis of landscape painting is not few, but most of the analysis does not explore the connection with history, culture and life. The study focuses on the elements of history, culture and life in the landscape of Tamsui, tracks the historical context from the colonial period to post-war Taiwan, and observes the way landscape becomes a cultural product and a work of art. It reviews the correlation between social change and cultural significance and discusses various discourses on landscape, visual space and artistic creation, to comprehend the meaning of landscape used in artistic creation. The thesis is concerned with four Taiwanese painters and their works. Their works span four artistic epochs: 1895 to 1945, 1945 to 1970, 1970 to 1990, and 1990 to 2000, representing different social realities and developmental stages in the history of Taiwanese art, while they all use landscape as the central motif for their creation. 陳澄波’s resistance to national identity in colonized Taiwan is remarkable. His imagination primarily rests on southern Taiwan, and his works portray the landscape during urban planning. 陳慧坤 is tormented with ideological clashes and troubled cultural identities, while his works feature exoticism and the quest for independence. 李永沱 tacitly displays his affection with local surroundings in the burgeoning grass-root movement. 何肇衢’s works respond to the need to find a delicate balance between internationalism and localism, at a time when global urbanization comes in conflict with cultural conservation. The thesis casts lights on the linkage between artistic imagination and landscape, puts in context the use of landscape in creative process, in an attempt to understand more about representational space in artistic creation.