New+Ming-De+Village+明德新村,+Lovely+South+Taiwan,+Acrlic+by+Lee+Ming-Tse

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** Artwork Identification ** Title: New Ming-De Village Artist(s): Lee Ming_Tse Date: 2004 Period:Contemporary Country of Origin: Taiwan Cultural/Ethnic Affiliation: Han Chinese Medium: Acrylic Dimensions: 332X240cm Museum/Collection: METAPHYSICAL ART GALLERY Accession Number: unknown Current Location and Manner of Display: METAPHYSICAL ART GALLERY Provenance: (the history of ownership if known) unknown

** Introduction ** This entry highlights an acrylic painted on canvas by the contemporary artist Lee Ming-Tse. Lee was a contemporary Taiwanese painter. He was born in 1957 in Kaohsiung Country, Taiwan. He developed his painting skills earlier by start to draw comic strips when he was eleven years old. After that he constantly kept his irrevocable commitment as a painting artist. He has been living in south part of Taiwan throughout his life although he stayed in Taipei for a short while. As a result, most of his works are deeply influenced by all styles of temples and temple fairs in south Taiwan from his childhood memory.

This image shows the scenery of the well-known neighborhood called New Ming-De Village located in Kaohsiung city where Lee is living currently. The neighborhood is an example of traditional style of houses left during the period of Japanese colonization.

** Descriptive Analysis ** The New Ming-De Village is acrylic on canvas. The dimensions are about 8 feet tall by approximately seven and three quarter feet wide. It contains mainly the green trees, yellow ground, white walls, and gray roofs. The image is made up by various perspective spaces from multiple view points. The composition of the image is very detailed by dramatic.

The house located in the center of image was drawn from side perspective as the front door is on left side. This center part of the image shows the typical arrangement of this type of Japanese house. Outside the wall, there is a tatami mat in a recessed space beside a small pavilion in the yard. The water cups and a fan on the tatami showing it is a space for people to rest. On the big green tree in the yard close to the audience, there are a group of swallows flying around. On the other side of house in the yard, there is big tree with brown leaves located in the center of the image. Also a person is watering the plants on the back yard.

Outside the center house surrounded by the wall, there are children playing on the walking lanes, as well as some small pets. It shows the neighbor's quite and comfortable living enviroments. The center far behind the audience is a plant with long leaves and white flower. The spatial arrangements of the trees in the center of the image from close to far distance provide the audience with a lot of imaginations.

** Formal/Contextual Analysis ** New Ming-De Village is a picture that the artist depicted his current living place. This type of village is defined as a traditional neighborhood designed for military dependents. These villages are common area lived by dependents moved from mainland to Taiwan with KMT after Japanese left Taiwan. The total number of these villages is 879, most of which located in major city in the north but some located in Kaohsiung country.

 Air force dependent village in Gangshan

 A house in a dependent village in Pingdong Image Sources : http://www.wretch.cc/blog/hungchihwen/11513837

Ming-De Village is one of the villages in Laohsiung country, with around 58 houses built during Japanese colonized period. It is known as the high-end level village throughout Taiwan and lived by a lot of general's families. As the pictures has shown, the houses are spacious, lanes are wide and clean, and environments are very comfortable.

Lee Ming-Tse's works represent his life. This is one of example work to show Lee Ming-Tse's life philosophy without seeking fame and wealth. To interpret Lee Ming-tse's paintings is like to review his life experience and transition. As his title during his exhibition in Kaohsiung fine art museum in 2009, "I love Taiwan, especially south Taiwan", this picture shows his indelible impression of his living environments on the artist's mind.

Some of Lee Ming-Tse's other recent works are shown as follows:

 What a big bamboo shoot, 130X97cm, 1996 [] <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">No doubts at forty, 510X300cm, 1996 <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Image Sources : []

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The beginning and end of Taiwan, 1015X206cm, 1996 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Image Sources : []

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Hot spring bath, 332X240cm, 2004 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Image Sources :[] ** Personal Interpretations ** This is a beautiful piece of artwork done with great care and a lot of thought put into it. I like the land scape because it easily rise and recall the best memory of family house from childhood. This work shows how the artist love his hometown and his life.

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 * Lesson Title:** Based Anywhere
 * Grade Level:** 3rd/4th Grade
 * Time:** 4 weeks

National Standards for Arts Education (Visual Arts) NA-VA.1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes. NA-VA.2: Using knowledge of structures and functions. NA-VA.3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas. NA-VA.4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures. NA-VA.5: Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
 * Standards:**

National Educational Technology Standards for Students 1. Creativity and Innovation 2. Communication and Collaboration 3. Research and Information Fluency 4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making 6. Technology Operations and Concepts

Cultural Community Context: The cultural and historical information regarding a specific community. It is important to gain as much knowledge about a culture, historically, in order to fully understand any connections between a culture and its community. Contrasting Cultures: It is important to be able to analyze similarities and differences between ones own culture and any other culture. Cultural Awareness: The ability to understand and comprehend that there are other cultures other than ones own, and there are many all over the world.
 * Central Concepts:**


 * Lesson Activities:**

Activity 1: Communal Visual Art Examination and Presentation, 2 class periods. This activity will allow students to collaborate, brainstorm, and discuss the painting (New Ming-De Village) along with the teacher. To do so, the teacher will write main points discussed on the white board or large easel with paper. After discussion about the specific piece, the students will have the ability to do Internet-related research in groups. Each group will be responsible for certain aspects of information related to the artwork. The different aspects include the location, community demographics, natural & living aspects, as well as contextual background information on the artwork. Each group will have the opportunity to present their research with one PowerPoint slide of information. Once each group has created their own slide, the teacher will create a PowerPoint presentation that incorporates each group’s slide. This activity allows the students to take responsibility in teaching their classmates a particular portion of information, as well as be responsible for presenting their information to the class through use of PowerPoint.

Activity 2: Comparing and Fusing Communities, 1.5 class periods. This activity begins with students being introduced to the activity and given instructions, at the end of the previous class. The students will be asked to take notes, when they go home, documenting their own personal communities that they live in. They are to describe everything they see, hear, smell, and feel while they are standing/sitting just outside their front door/residence looking out. The next class period the students will be asked to compare what they wrote with what they see in the New Ming-De Village painting. Then with contextual information dropping from the teacher, the students should be able to identify the similarities and differences between the two communities. The image of //New Ming-De Village// will be downloaded to iPads. With the use of iPad App such as iSketch, the painting would be imported into the App that would allow students to alter the paintings, by adding to the piece. They would add or draw in the aspects of their own communities that they don’t see depicted already. They would be instructed to add parts of their notes from their own communities, to make the painting feel more like their own. At the end the altered //New Ming-De Village// should fuse 2 very different communities all in one painting at the end.

Activity 3: Trees and Birds, 1 class period. This activity gives students the opportunity to evaluate and appreciate different natural aspects of the world. Compared to the birds and trees that students may see in their own lives, the ones depicted in the New Ming-De Village painting may be different than they are used to. After a thorough discussion of the types of trees and birds seen in the painting, the students will be directed to draw their own tree and bird based from pictures they can find online. More than one student may draw the same type of bird or tree, as there are not a large variety of them in the painting itself. Each individual’s tree or bird will then be placed on a large board, arranged based on what the students think the painting would have looked like without human interaction.

Activity 1: Activity 2: Activity 3:
 * Assessment:**

National Standards for Arts Education;
 * References:**

ISTE. National Education Technology Standards for Students; []

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RubiStar: Create rubrics for your project-based learning activities; []