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【Honors of Kite Artist】Media's Appraisal
Buteo Huang is a locally and globally famous kite artist. In order to understand what people think about him, we organized relevant reports, both domestic and international, and interviewed Teacher Huang’s family and colleagues, reporters who have written reports on him, experts who have written commentaries on him, and of course we six fans’ truth.
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- ’Dreams’ and ‘insistence’ are the secrets that Buteo Huang courageously advances in his kite creations. He has faced countless challenges in his art making life for the past three decades since he made the very first kite when he was ten. Every time he test-flies successfully, he overcomes another obstacles and experiences the humbleness and joyfulness of ‘mountains beyond mountains,’ even though his skin starts peeling off because he test-flies kites all day long in those summer sunny days, and frozen stiff because he test-flies kites throughout the night on the windy beach.
—E-paper of Council for Cultural Affairs
- Buteo Huang expresses his thought through kites and strongly deems that creativity is the hope for Taiwan. Through kites, Buteo Huang is creating. He is groping for a new way, between tradition and modernity, for cultural creativity in local Taiwan.
—2008.09.03 Discover New Taiwan Step by Step by TVBS/ Yi-Yi Zhan
- International kite artist Buteo Huang wants to capture those hearts that are eager to fly. The artist Buteo Huang that belongs to the sky believes only in creating and never limits himself.
—2010.02.07 National Education Radio/ Kai-Xi Huang
- Buteo Huang always holds that a kite is more than a folkgame or folk custom, and could be promoted as modern art. Taking the sky as the canvas, he believes that kites can convey more ideas.
—2005.05.09 Min Sheng Bao/Su-Ling Lai
- Buteo Huang thinks that kites combines science, art, and craft. As a folkgame in everyone’s eye, kites in fact can be promoted to art level.
—2003.06.18United Daily News/Yan-Hua Wang
- Applying modern technology products, Buteo Huang constructs colorful kites with various shapes via scientific creativity and aesthetic style.
—2003.10.25 United Daily News/Ru-Yi Hsu
- uteo Huang defines kites as ‘anything that can fly into the sky.’ We can continuously innovate only through broadening our science, art, and culture literacy. There is no formula to build a kite. Just keep trying.
—2004.07.15 United Daily News/Qing-Lin Li
- Buteo Huang has a wish to bring Taiwan’s kite culture to a further stage, and make Taiwan proud because of kites.
—2004.11.06 Min Sheng Bao/Fong-Kun Shih
- The kites created by Buteo Huang not only fly high and far, but integrate modern phrases and art aesthetics.
—2005.05.09 Min Sheng Bao/Ruo-Ning Wu
- In Buteo Huang’s eye, there is nothing can’t fly into the sky. Everything walks on the ground or floats on the water can fly into the sky in the end.
—2006.09.06 United Daily News/ Yu-Ling Li
- Xiang-You Chang, a member of American Kite Association, points out that Buteo Huang dares to break through limitations of kite’s style. Buteo Huang develops unique art pieces among traditionally plain kites and modern stunt kites that are popular in the West. He colors the sky in Taiwan with distinctive flavors.
—1999.03.13 United Daily News/ Yi-Jie Lin
- Buteo Huang, who has passion and persistence, becomes a kite mater without a teacher. He has created an international reputation and loves Taiwan through kite making.
—2009.05.25 TamkangTimes/Jia-Qi Chang
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- Buteo Huang is not only a magician fulfilling his boyhood dream but also an engineer and artist making adult dreams come true.
—2006.08.12 Ecologist Dr. Heng-Biao Jin
- Teacher Huang is the best artist I have ever known, who balances the ideal and reality by having his feet on the ground.
—2012.02.01 Mr. Rui-Yuan Guo
- Teacher Huang is always creative and makes his next move splendid. Stories he tell and his creations are so alluring.
—2012.01.31 Teacher Ya-Mei Chang
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