A study on Painted Faces form and sensory imagery of Household Generals

• Main Authors: Bi-shih Ciou, 邱碧施
• Other Authors: Jenn-yang Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85186576491775897754

碩士 === 南華大學 === 視覺與媒體藝術學系碩士班 === 99 === 　　Taiwan''s religious culture is well developed. The temple celebration holding regularly every year is unique religious art assets of Taiwanese. The Parade Formation activities combining religion with culture arts, and containing typical Chinese symbols and cultural significance are important part of folk art in Taiwan. It is worthy of this research to explore the rich artistic content. 　 　　In this research, the samples are the Painted Faces of Household Generals about the eight main roles, including " Gan General , Liu General, Xie General, Fan General, Spring God, summer God, Fall God, Winter God ". The purpose is to investigate the Painted Faces form elements and sensory imagery of Household Generals. 　 　　The research had been divided into two parts, the first part is qualitative research, and the second part is quantitative research. In the qualitative research, this study employed the field investigation to shoot and to collect Painted Faces samples of Household Generals, the interviews to understand the Painted Faces form elements and meaning of ornamentation by visiting facial painting artists, and the comparative to analyze and cross-compare original with current Painted Faces form of Household Generals one by one to induce the element characteristics of Painted Faces form and the differences between the both. In the quantitative research, we used the questionnaire to investigate the sensory imagery of Painted Faces on the north, central and southern people in Taiwan. The pretesting questionnaire carries on the pre-test, project analysis and reliability tests to become an official questionnaire of this research. We used the SPSS statistics software to analyze and process the information, including descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA , factor analysis and correlation analysis. 　 　　The result is generalizing the element characteristics and emblazonry types from analyzing the Painted Faces of Household Generals. The original and current Painted Faces form of Household Generals is the same approximately. Each facial painting form character has a fixed rule, but times change and reproduction causes the some differences of the form. The statistics showed people''s sensory imagery awareness on Painted Faces form of Household Generals, and there is some discrepancy in the sensory imagery awareness of Painted Faces form of Household Generals on the people of different sex, age, place of residence. Besides, the correlation analysis on the eight Painted Faces of Household Generals showed significant positive correlation, excluding Gan Generals between Winter God and Liu Genera between Fall God. 　 　　The research and discovery will set up emblazonry types and sensory imagery awareness on Painted Faces form of Household Generals. Some references and during the design will be to provide for the creators of culture and art.