Archive for June, 2012

2016 Summer Studen and Faculty Research

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

 

 

In the spring , Xi, Christen, and I talked about doing a research about Tiehua in  the United States. We wrote proposal for a student-Faculty summer research project funded by McDaniel Coolege

We planned three goals for this project:

1) make a survey about Tiehua in the States

2) explore who introduce Tiehua in the United States

3) understand Tiehua in a context of global history

Students expect to learn how a historian does a research through libraries, archives, museums. They also want to learn how to formulate questions for future research on Tiehua.

 

Huang Xi’s goal

 

Christen Brown’s goal

 

We also taled with each other and set up atentative for the summer.

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day one

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Tiehua in the Palace Museum

 

 

On the first day, Christen, Xi, and I met in the Hoover Library. We set a temporary plan for June 1 to 14.later looking at some tiehua pieces, we decided to compare and contrast tiehuaand  brush painting in terms of techniquesmean cultural meanings:

Xi explores floral paintings while Christen explores landscape paintings.

 

It is very nice sitting in the Hoover Library, working on the big table and big screen computer. it is also very convenient to pull uppictures outhon the computer. For the next two weeks, the Library will be our bases.

 

 

 

 

 

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Wuhu Tiehua

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012

 

 

Wuhu Tiehua is an art form that hammering art out of iron, which first started in the city of Wuhu in the seventeenth century. Tang Peng, a local blacksmith was considered a master of the artwork turned iron into the image of boats, flowers, insects, and landscape, which gained national attention in the 18th century.

Tiehua in the Palace Museum, 2012

 

Since the 20th century, tiehua began to be imported to the United States and Europe. They have been on various exhibitions, preserved in museums, and introduced in the journals as an unique oriental art on the market.

 Tiehua at Philadelphia Museum of Arts, 2011

Tiehua were celebrated both in Chinese and English for its unique aesthetics as well as

Four Gentlemen at Philadelphia Museum of Arts, 2011

 

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