The Creation of Fantasy by Animal Metaphors

• Main Authors: Liu, Chiao-Hsuan, 劉巧璇
• Other Authors: Huang, Chin-Lung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93b7s4

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 美術學系 === 105 === The main purpose of this paper is the study of fantasy art. Because the field of fantasy art is comprehensive with diverse forms, which also has neither a specific style nor too many historical annotations, the research was based on fairy tales and fantasy literature. The author points out that the core development of the stories in fairy tales are based on people and real life. Through the discussion of “metaphor” and “imagination” in making fairytales correspond to reality; furthermore, studying the two natures of fantasy literature and fantasy art to find possible metaphors of real life, and to look back towards the reflection of the author’s creation and concept of metaphor. The author sorts out the elements of fantasy in looking for the relationship between the theory of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Second World” and the creation of fantasy worlds, also to analyze the artistic expression of “Alice in Wonderland” and works of Daniel Merriam. Through the research of these works, the author has found her own domain for her individual creation and imagination of fantasy world. With the concept of animal behavior as a metaphor for human behavior, the author not only created her own artistic approach towards her fantasy art creation, but also made the context and discussion more complete. The essay is divided into five chapters: Introduction, Foundation of Creative Research Theory, Creative Concept and Practice, Work Analysis, and Conclusion. In the second chapter, the author discusses the connotation and forms of fantasy art, and the theoretical basis of behavior theory. To complete the creation of discussion according to the author’s animal metaphors and the creation of fantasy world, the author constructed the concept and practice procedure in the third chapter. In the fourth chapter, the author stated the analysis of the creations, and the final summery.