Pre-Yuan Dynasty Arts
Director: Lin Kuang
Researches focuses on the studies of Chinese mountain-and-river (shan shui, so called landscapes in west) paintings from the Tang Dynasty through the Southern Song Dynasty, approximately early 7th through 13th century. Premodern Chinese mountain-and-river painting has a long history, with origins possibly traceable to the period of pictographs (xiangxing wenzi). In contrast to Western paintings that follow geometric laws and are hence considered to be “scientifically-based,” premodern Chinese paintings have long been deemed as “philosophically-based.” We have discovered that premodern Chinese paintings carry its own unique beauty that is actually also “scientifically-based.” By uncovering the patterns of accurately positioned Golden Angles (or Golden-Angled Triangles) in compositions of premodern Chinese paintings, ADI approaches to
provide a new methodology for scientifically analyzing the said paintings; and from this methodology, a qiyun morphological paradigm is derived. ADI provides a new “tool” to resolve questions that could not be done by traditional theories and methods.
Current Projects:
Premodern Chinese Mountain-and-River (Shan Shui) Painting Analysis using Qiyun Form Model. (Mountain-and-River Painting is rather different from Western “landscape”)
古代山水畫「氣韻形態模型」分析法研究。
Publications:
1 On the Scientific Nature and Uniqueness of Premodern Chinese Landscape Painting: And on the Golden Ratio Geometric Model and Traditional Methodologies as Mutual Complements. (Create Space Independent Publishing, 2014)
The Chinese edition of this book is under processing in Heilongjiang Arts Publisher, and is planned to publish in 2015. The new book has 18 chapters and over 320,000 Chinese characters.
2 Analysis on Special Cases of Composition of Ancient Chinese Landscapes -- Also on Distinguished Aesthetic Forms of Ancient Chinese Paintings (Taipei, Bulletin of National Museum of History. 2012.05)
3 Composition Analysis on Ma Yuan’s Landscapes. (Taipei, Bulletin of National Museum of History. 2011.02)
provide a new methodology for scientifically analyzing the said paintings; and from this methodology, a qiyun morphological paradigm is derived. ADI provides a new “tool” to resolve questions that could not be done by traditional theories and methods.
Current Projects:
Premodern Chinese Mountain-and-River (Shan Shui) Painting Analysis using Qiyun Form Model. (Mountain-and-River Painting is rather different from Western “landscape”)
古代山水畫「氣韻形態模型」分析法研究。
Publications:
1 On the Scientific Nature and Uniqueness of Premodern Chinese Landscape Painting: And on the Golden Ratio Geometric Model and Traditional Methodologies as Mutual Complements. (Create Space Independent Publishing, 2014)
The Chinese edition of this book is under processing in Heilongjiang Arts Publisher, and is planned to publish in 2015. The new book has 18 chapters and over 320,000 Chinese characters.
2 Analysis on Special Cases of Composition of Ancient Chinese Landscapes -- Also on Distinguished Aesthetic Forms of Ancient Chinese Paintings (Taipei, Bulletin of National Museum of History. 2012.05)
3 Composition Analysis on Ma Yuan’s Landscapes. (Taipei, Bulletin of National Museum of History. 2011.02)