The category of International CyberFairthat that we participated-- Local Leader
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Local Community: ¡@¡@
¡@¡@Residence of Yong-Huh Wang is situated at a zone characterized by art and historic sites in Taichung City, Taiwan. Wang’s Residence is surrounded by a 100-year-old and Commercial High School, a Park in memory of the tragic massacre happening in 2/28 , 1947, and an Fine Art Museum reconstructed from a train station warehouse. Therefore, many holiday-goers often gather here to enrich their spiritual life and broaden their horizons.
Project Description:
¡@¡@Born in Taichung in 1925, the 90-year-old artist Yong-Huh Wang entered the industry of commercial art design at age 14 , thus gaining the title “the founder of commercial art design in central Taiwan.” However, Wong, with his talent and hard work, made his mark in fine art in his early twenties and has become the leader of local sculpture and oil painting for 70 years. Though Wang didn’t have any academic background concerning art, he once won the first prizes of National sculpture and oil painting for 6 times.
¡@¡@The masterpieces of Wang include oil painting, interior design, architecture, sculpture, design of sign and calligraphy. We may say that Wang’s life is the history of art in Taiwan. Nevertheless, there are very few documents left describing the art master. That’s why we need to make most of our time to interview the living legend, hoping to make a complete record of Wong and make more people know how brilliant an art history Wong passes down to Taiwan.
Description of "Our Community"
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¡@¡@Description of the Local Community
¡@¡@Taichung, a city connected with the world with Cultural-Creative industry and art, owns not only many historical relics and sites, but a group of prominent artists, therefore playing an important part in Taiwan’s cultural and art development. As these people’s creative works are spread to every corner of Taiwan, the government is devoted to preserving multiculturalism, making the this vibrant city seen by the world.
Summary of Our Project
¡@¡@On the gate of Taichung’s famous attraction ‘Miyahara’, we saw beautiful and vintage fonts. After asking the store, we got to know ’Wang's-style Font’, which is designed by Wang Shui-He. We found more surprising historical materials after the start of the research. It turned out that the major Chinese computer font styles are mostly created by Wang Shui-He, who lives in Taichung just like us. The information about Wang Shui-He, however, is so rare and imprecise that we decide to make our project the most complete bibliography of Wang Shui-He.
Our Computer/Internet Access
¡@¡@The internet in the computer lab is connected by ADSL at school and all the computers at school are connected with each other by optical fiber cable, which makes the team do the research more fluently and more conveniently.
Problems We Had to Overcome
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¡@¡@Mr. Wang, who has got two types of cancers, is ninety years old now. After the treatment for laryngo-carcinoma (throat cancer) in 1970, he could talk no more. Therefore, the interview would be very challenging, and most of all the interviews have to rely on his son’s assistance. Moreover, there’s a lot of pressure from study for us senior high students. In addition, we found that there isn’t much information left about Wang Shui-He. That is, we can only get those precious historical data through interviews.
Our Project Sound Bite
¡@¡@After the interview, we realize the importance of teamwork. Only by cooperating systematically can we gear up efficiently. In addition, in the process of pre-work, we found that the information of Wang on the Internet is rare. Therefore we hope to share Wang’s stories and art works with those who are eager to be inspired by the master.
