A Tang Palace Rhapsody
Using the painting ''A Palace Concert'' as an inspiration, ''A Tang Palace Rhapsody'' merges modern technology and media to display this new perspective of culture and multimedia interaction. Through the viewers' steps on the sensor-equipped floors, the young ladies, skillfully playing their instruments, are sent through the urban landscapes of Taipei, New York, and Paris. ''A Tang Palace Rhapsody'' transforms a classical painting into an innovative modern image. Combined with a wealth of sound effects and music, this installation gives the painting a contemporary taste and meaning.
A Tang Palace RhapsodySummer Lotus
The lotus pond in full bloom as conveyed by the Song dynasty artist Feng Dayou is filled with lotus leaves and blossoms in radiant bloom swaying gently in the breeze. Some are buds awaiting to open and bring further life to the scene. Ducks swim leisurely about the pond as colorful butterflies dance in the air with swallows in flight for a scene full of life unfolding in a visual feast for the eyes of summer at its height. The construction of a cyber-physical interactive space allows the myriad imagery of breezy summer lotuses filling a pond come to life with your steps activating the emergence of fish swimming and duckweed gathering and dissipating with the ripples on the water's surface. At the same time, the breeze of life follows the cycle of time and day to issue forth boundless life and vitality. New media technology applied to a sense of realism allows you to use digital methods to feel the vibrant life of a summer's day.
Lotuses in the Wind at TaiyeAutumn Colors
Zhao Mengfu used his recollections to paint “Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains,” taking a romanticized and lyrical approach to sketching scenery as a present for his good friend, Zhou Mi, to relieve Zhou's longing for his ancestral home. The scenery has just turned to autumn with red leaves appearing here and there. Cottages are scattered as goats roam around. Hardworking fishermen seem to take advantage of the pleasing weather and make their way home with a full catch. Womenfolk in the cottages come out in preparation for their return, making this scenery even more enticing. This installation uses color and timing to interpret the message of autumn. Using digital body sensor interaction, you can use your hand to wave over the painting and move your hands to initiate close-ups, revealing the original delicate beauty of “Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains.” It is like the magic in which the painter picks up and wields the brush to transmit the friendship of old as understood by fellow literati.
Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua MountainsMust-See Paintings and Calligraphies Interactive Tabletop
“Must-See Paintings and Calligraphies Interactive Tabletop “ utilizes multi-analytical and multi-touch technologies, combined with high-resolution artifact images, 15 famous NPM Painting and calligraphy pieces are presented before the audiences. The use of new technology overcame the disadvantage of ancient Painting and calligraphy in that the materials are normally fragile and unsuitable to withstand regular exhibitions. Parents and children can choose their favorite painting and calligraphy pieces on the interactive table, casually zooming in and out the screen and fully browse the essence of classic painting and calligraphy.
Mao-Gong Ding Interactive Tabletop of Chinese Characters
“Chinese Character Cauldron” features a Chinese character evolution video that consists 70 selected Chinese characters from the 500 characters inscribed inside the Mao Kung Ting from the late Western Zhou, the video demonstrates the rich history and cultural connotation of Chinese characters. Audiences can drag the glowing circle around to turn the inscriptions into corresponding modern text. Selecting the illuminating text and the screen will show off its matching Oracle, Bronze Inscription, Seal Script, Clerical Script, Cursive Script, Running Script and Standard Script as a transformational process. Thousands years of the evolution of Chinese characters are presented before the eyes of the audience.
Mao-Gong DingBlue and White and Colored Porcelain
Blue and white porcelains are well known for their complicated decorative motifs and gracefully molded shapes. The body of a vessel is often draped with interwining patterns of flower and plants and the white space is decorated with leaf or lotus scrolls, or occasionally a pair of realistic rendered dragon eyes among bountiful depictions of various flora. The designs are first drawn onto the surface with cobalt pigment which is then covered with a transparent glaze; after, the piece is fired in a kiln at a high temperature, which intensifies the contrast between the colors.
Doucai wares, which make up another rare and precious category of porcelains, are mostly decorated with daintily depicted animals, birds and precious fruits. Their manufacture, one could say, came about as an extension of blue and white porcelain. To create a doucai porcelain, craftsmen would first create the composition in blue and white, then after glazing and firing the piece at a high temperature, would apply colored paint to the design before firing the piece again at a low temperature. Doucai refers to the competing or contrasting of colored glazes above and underneath the transparent glaze.
Painting Anime: Up the River During Qingming
The National Palace Museum “Up the River During Qingming” through the latest technology, high-resolution projectors seamlessly unfold long scroll paintings on the light wall to present the classical scenery in Chinese paintings.
Up the River During Qingming
