"Exploring a Wondrous Landscape" Multimedia Exhibits
Revisit the Chinese classic landscape artworks with digital technology.
Around the World in History by unknownNational Palace Museum
Introduction
Since the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, The National Palace Museum responded to challenges by launching an interactive digital exhibition titled "Exploring a Wondrous Landscape" from April 2021 to 2022, with a primary goal of providing a “touchless experience”.
The Exhortation contains four sections: "Around the World in History", "An Underwater World of Fantasy", "Impressions of Fu-Chun" and "A Planet of Dreams". Enjoy an adventure of a wondrous 21st century landscape.
Let's start with the first section "Around the World in History ", stroll along the corridor "The Fragrant Entrance of Butterfly Dance" scene from Emperor Huizong's Song Dynasty poem.
butterfly 1 by unknownNational Palace Museum
The Fragrant Entrance of Butterfly
The original concept came from Song Huizong's Calligraphy "Poem", describing butterflies dancing along a fragrant footpath.
It combined with the painting "Myriad Butterflies" for visual animation.
Poem (AD 960-AD 1279) by Emperor Hui-tsung (1082-1135)National Palace Museum
Huizong's Calligraphy "Poem"
Emperor Hui-tsung was good at calligraphy and painting, mastering the genres of landscapes, figures, birds-and-flowers.
His calligraphic skills reached considerable heights, leading to the creation of "slender gold script," characterized by strong and and sharp brushwork.
butterfly 1 by unknownNational Palace Museum
A large rectangular interactive projection with AR background removal creates a corridor that runs through the exhibit space.
The participant's face and expression are projected onto a large screen through technology, providing an immersive personal experience with the arts.
The Fragrant Entrance of Butterfly Dance 2 by unknownNational Palace Museum
This installation features dancing butterflies projected in lights and shadows, evoking the poetic fantasy of butterfly dancing.
The scene of butterflies in flight, embodying the concept of "Poem," created a memorable photographic spot that boosted social media exposure.
Then, here comes "Morphosis of Castiglione's Hundred Horses".
A majestic white horse stands in "Around of the World" section, and awaiting our discovery.
Morphosis of Castiglione's Hundred Horses
Based on Giuseppe Castiglione's painting "One Hundred Horses," which depicts a hundred horses in various poses and activities.
The digital artwork portrays a horse exhibiting a range of colors, patterns, and appearances through technology, emerges from painting, coming to life.
One Hundred Horses (AD 1644-AD 1911) by Lang Shih-ning (Giuseppe Castiglione, 1688-1766)National Palace Museum
One Hundred Horses
Creator Giuseppe Castiglione(1688-1766), also known by his Chinese name Lang Shining, was a Milanese and Jesuit missionary from Italy.
This long handscroll painting depicts a scene of a herd of horses out in the pasture.
One Hundred Horses
The painting follows the Chinese brushwork tradition in gazing horses, In the other hand, landscape painting also employs realistic technique of Western brushwork.
It successfully combines elements from both Chinese and Western artistic traditions.
"One Hundred Horses" depicts a plain with a hundred horses at leisure in various poses. Every detail in the painting such as trees, rocks, mountains, rivers and figures are all realistically done. The beautiful coloring, intricate composition, and compelling realism reveal a fusion of Eastern and Western techniques. Traditional Chinese techniques were combined with Western shading and perspective as well as Western painting materials, showing a true meeting of East and West.
"Morphosis of Castiglione's Hundred Horses" with digital simulation, showcasing the characteristics of both Eastern and Western painting with a a contrastive storyboard.
Next, Let's enter the underwater tunnel, step into " An Underwater World of Fantasy ".
Get ready to dive into the sea's wonders.
Marvels within the Sea Immersive Interactive Tunnel
The "Marvels within the Sea Immersive Interactive Tunnel" is inspired by Illustrated Album of Sea Ornaments respectively, and the audience is invited to play with sea creatures through the artists’ eyes hundred years ago.
Let's shift to the third section "Impressions of Fu-Chun", stop by the "Impressions of Fu-Chun" Immersive Theater. Immersive theater blurs the line between audience and artwork, providing an expanded sensory experience.
"Impressions of Fu-Chun" Immersive Theater 1 by npmNational Palace Museum
"Impressions of Fu-Chun" Immersive Theater
Based on the NPM's " Dwelling in the Fu-chun Mountains (Wu-yung Version).
In "Impressions of Fu-Chun", an immersive theater of famous paintings, visitors can experience a transcendent confrontation of styles across centuries and spaces.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (Wu-yung Version) (AD 1279-AD 1368) by Huang Gongwang (1269-1354)National Palace Museum
"Dwelling in the Fu-chun Mountains"
''Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains'' is the greatest surviving masterpiece by Huang Gongwang (1269-1354), one of the Four Yuan Masters, it is also a work renowned in the history of Chinese painting.
One of the remarkable aspects of this painting is...
The painting features layers of brush and ink, the landscape forms outlined and washed with great variation.
Hear from me-Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains by Huang Gongwang
What If......
When Cezaane X Monet X Van Gogh Met Fuchun River.
What kind of paintings would be created, if Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Claude Monet (1840-1926), and Vincent van Gogh (1853- 1890) had visited the Fuchun River?
"Impressions of Fu-Chun" Immersive Theater 1 by npmNational Palace Museum
Using an AI technology, the styles of Monet, Cézanne and Van Gogh is learned to subsequently allow a computer to "paint" the Dwelling in the Fu-chun Mountains in the styles of these European masters.
"Impressions of Fu-Chun" Immersive Theater (2021-04-02) by unknownNational Palace Museum
Through Adaptive Instance Normalization (AdaIN) function, AI learns from the paintings of artists and draws Fu-chun Mountains in their respective style.
This section presents immersive theater "Impressions of Fu-Chun" to initiate a stylistic discourse across the centuries and distance.
Let’s step into the final section, "A Planet of Dreams", which envisions a 21st-century museum transformed by digital technology. It imagines a space that is more intellectual, accessible, and open-minded, fostering creativity.
Lab Fantastic
Workshops offer hands-on DIY experiences related to exhibition themes like landscape lamps, butterflies, and galloping horses.
It offers participants a first-hand experience of the delightful aspects of art.
More fun and educating!
This presentation is from " Exploring a Wondrous Landscape", an exhibition organized by the National Palace Museum (April 02, 2021–August 31, 2021)
Exploring a Wondrous Landscape
