Project Overview
1.Community Description :
Taiwan, facing the Pacific Ocean to the east and the West Bank across the sea with Mainland China, is an island nestled among the largest ocean and the largest land in the world. Since the 16th century, it has become a region where all powerful powers fight for, such as Spain, the Netherlands, China and Japan due to the special geographic location and rich natural resources, so they want to be in on action. After ruled by several different colonial countries, Taiwan has a diverse-cultural pattern with European beliefs and crops from Spain and the Netherlands, traditional Chinese customs and religious culture, Japanese customs and values, so the arts also have different styles under the influence of different colonies. Gouache painting is one of them.
2.Project Summary:The art of Taiwan is deeply affected by Japan during their occupation from 1895 to 1945. At that time, Taiwan’s economy and politics were in a more stable situation. Besides, education was promoted by Japanese government, so Taiwanese people were more largely exposed to arts. Therefore, Taiwanese art began to flourish and a large number of famous artists were born during the time. Among them, Mrs. Chen Chin, as the first female artist at a time of androcentrism, performed well. She was one of three "Three Taiwan Youngsters". She was good at gouache painting which was brought in by the Japanese. Her paintings were mostly devoted to ladies, families, scenery and flowers. Mrs. Chen-Chin passed away in 1998. We’ve interviewed her relatives and visited her private museum, and set up websites to introduce her. By doing this, we didn’t only preserve the ancient art, but we can feel the passion and concern from Mrs. Chen-Chin as well as cherish the very land we live on - Taiwan. |
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3.CyberFair Theme:
The CyberFair theme of this year is "Preserve & Unite". We take action to preserve and promote the ancient art -Gouache painting in Taiwan by creating and designing webpages about Mrs. Chen Chin and her paintings. Through Mrs. Chen Chin’s painting, it united the fusion of Japan’s techniques and Taiwan’s style of painting on behalf of the Japanese era integration. During the process of studying this project, we unite our teachers, classmates (more than 120 students), Mrs. Chen Chin's family, Mrs. Li-Fin Chen (Committee of National Culture and Arts Foundation), Mr.Tsai-Lang Huang(past Director of Taipei Fine Arts Museum), Yu-Chun Lin(Collection Head of Taipei Fine Art Museum),and Mr. Bo-Ting Lin( past Deputy Director of National Palace Museum) to join our project together. We preserved Mrs. Chen Chin’s Gouache paintings on our web pages and introduced her story and Gouache paintings to worldwide. Therefore, people get to know the ancient art-Gouache painting by our web page, not only in Taipei Fine Arts Museum or National Museum of History. Through this CyberFair competition, we can preserve and unite the ancient art-Gouache painting of Mrs. Chen Chin by our webpages.4.Our Computer and Internet Access:
We have two computer classrooms with a total of 100 computers and two optical fiber networks at school. We usually handle most of the work using lunch break, study time at night and holidays. After class time, members connect ADSL broadband Internet access at home, so we can use the same email, Facebook, Line and other medias to continue the research work.5.Problems We Had to Overcome:
Some of the members have experienced in participating in this Cyberfair. Therefore, at the beginning, the teacher let us browse a large number of previous winning entries and look for the theme of the fair. In the following sessions, the teacher led the members to discuss the theme of Cyberfair and name of the titles.During the process of making the webpages due to the pressure of schoolwork and going to cram school after school, we reached a consensus after discussion, we sacrificed the study time at night and lunch break time to do this project, discuss and design the webpage in the computer classroom. This made us exhausted in the afternoon classes, so how to make appropriate deployment between studying and Cyberfair is a big challenge.
The group members had interview experience before, but facing people who we were unfamiliar with, we would still be shy. Therefore, we divided our work, prepared our interview questions to let us get less nervous during the official interview.
Throughout the process of making the webpages, webpage creation is the biggest challenge. Thanks to the teachers for helping us and guiding us during lunch break and study time at night in the computer classroom. We learned the skills of image processing software and webpage making software so that we have basic webpage design ability to create the webpages.
6.Our Project Soundbite:
In order to chase this era, I sprint in the rest of my life, I pressed my brush to move that day!
7.How did your activities and research for this International Schools CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
| 1.Through the collecting and sorting of information to enhance our understanding and integrating of language. 2.Through the writing of webpage information and afterthought to enhance our expression and the ability to translate. |
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| Discuss the Japanese occupation period painter’s influence to the development of Taiwan art history. | |
| Learn how to edit photos and to create webpages. | |
| To inherit the paintings of Taiwan during Japanese occupation period, to arouse the love of homeland. | |
| 1.Through the view and admire of paintings to foster appreciation of arts. 2.Learn the skills of painting gouache. 3.Learn how to design art and layout for the webpage. |
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| 1Preparation of the interview and to foster being polite. 2.Learn how to cooperate with team members and time arrangement. 3.Learn how to present our project to our classmates. |