Artistic Mythological Creation regarding the Counterattacks of Extinct Animals in History

• Main Authors: Chen, Yu-Chun, 陳語君
• Other Authors: 林子龍
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jdrb96

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 視覺藝術學系碩士在職專班 === 107 === In the Age of Discovery around the 16th Century, human beings started to expand their horizons and territories; many records showed that the voyagers docked at the lands that had abundant natural resources during the journeys. Gradually, the over depredation of natural resources has caused the environmental changes and extinction of species, among which, the extinction of Dodo was a famous extinct species due to human factors. Afterward, with the changes of social class, population growth, land development, and so forth reasons, caused the further extinction of many species successively. The creation concept develops from the perspective of environmental ethics, which had its beginnings from western philosophy in the 1970s and matured as an independent discipline that concerns and emphasizes the natural environment. Additionally, this research concentrates more on “Biocentrism” to emphasize that human beings have the obligation to consider ethical issues regarding all living things and their inherent value. The creation concept delivers the possible final aspect caused by ecological destruction through stories; the structure of the creation narrates the history of extinct species and the imaginary future by developing graphic stories. Using copper clad laminate substrates and acrylic paint as the materials to build the three series. The First Series uses copper clad laminate substrates to present etched copper portraits that demonstrate animal appearances in a natural environment. The Second Series shows the species extinction from the depredation of natural resources caused by human. Further, the Third Series shows the future mutation of species and their counterattack against human. To emphasize the harm that human has brought to other species via the Second and Third Series, as well as expressing the idea that the destinies of other species should not be purely controlled by humans.