Study in Ceramic Ware Engraved and Painted with Chinese Scripts

• Main Authors: Liu Hsi-Pei, 劉溪北
• Other Authors: Ku Chao-Jen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08534829270076444743

碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 視覺傳達設計學系碩士班 === 101 === There are a variety of media used in the art and modeling of Chinese calligraphy as well as painting. Turtle shells and animal bones, the “oracle bone script”, were used for writing from the Shang Dynasty to Western Zhou. When the Qin Dynasty united China and set rules for characters, bamboo and wooden slips were in great use. Books copied on silk date back to the Han Dynasty, and stele inscriptions prevailed during the Han and Wei Dynasty. The development of ceramic ware took shape in both dynasties, but the application of Chinese calligraphy on ceramic ware did not become more mature until the Tang and Song Dynasty. Until today, Chinese calligraphy art has evolved into a diversity of styles. This thesis aims to explore Chinese calligraphy and its application on sculptures and engravings by adopting painting techniques. Chinese calligraphy is applied on the flat or 3D clay body of ceramic ware to present the beauty of Chinese characters in paintings as well as the beauty of ceramic painting. Also, the painting “Nature of Sculptures and Paintings (Engraving and Painting)” is colored with oxide pigments such as glaze paint, in hopes to present the painting’s visual effects and displaying its practical utility as well as aesthetic appreciation. This thesis is written on the basis of ceramic ware with four different Chinese scripts engraved and painted on them through different techniques and in different glaze colors, and makes an analysis of the artistic effects produced by such samples of creation. Furthermore, a questionnaire survey is conducted to understand how users like each Chinese script style and each engraving and painting technique. This is the purpose of the thesis. Through the creation process and questionnaire survey analysis, it is discovered that people prefer seal script engraved and painted on celadon ware the most, and the most popular arrangement of glaze color and Chinese script style is the combination of clerical script and semi-cursive script in gold color written on a black background. Furthermore, ceramic ware engraved and painted with Chinese script, considered as a creative element, features practical as well as aesthetic values, and expresses the unique philosophy and emotions of the Chinese people. The artistic quality of scripts engraved on ceramic ware is a result of uniting four Chinese script styles—regular script, clerical script, cursive script and seal script, the rhythmic beauty created by the pressure and speed a calligrapher gives to a stroke, and the beauty of spatial arrangement on the small surface of ceramic ware. The blade technique, spatial arrangement and overall design of these artworks take a great deal of consideration, in hopes of producing one-of-a-kind beauty. Countless scholars and gentlemen have devoted themselves to such artistic creations from ancient times and therefore created the beauty of oriental art that we can be proud of.