ÆSTHETICS

Beauty is more than skin deep!

Cross-Culture Communication
National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Anthropology
Dr. Noel W. Schutz Jr.
Speaker: Lawrenzo Hung-Chun Huang
Beauty is more than skin deep

„ What is “beauty”?
Golden Proportion
 Imaginational Harmonic

Kalachakra Mandala
 The Trend and Fashion
„ Baroque 17th
(Classic)
z Exogenous
„ Rococo 18th
(Neoclassic)
z Minute and
complicated

Madame de Pompadour 1755, Maurice Quentin de La Tour

 Invisible Beauty
- Literature & Music
Romanticist
„ Victor Hugo
z Les Misérables
z Notre Dame de Paris
Tragedy Beauty
„ Lee Yee(李煜; 宋詞)
z 春花秋月何時了
When will there be no more moon and spring flowers
z 往事知多少
For me who had so many memorable hours?
z 小樓昨夜又東風
My attic which last night in vernal wind did stand
z 故國不堪回首月明中
Reminds cruelly of the lost moonlit land.
z 雕欄玉砌應猶在
Carved balustrades and marble steps must still be there,
z 只是朱顏改
But rosy faces cannot be as fair.
z 問君能有幾多愁
If you ask me how much my sorrow has increased,
z 恰似一江春水向東流
Just see the over brimming river flowing east!
The Essence of Aesthetic

„ Psychology and Philosophy

z Cognition
„ Ex. Balance vs. Unbalance
z Balance->harmonic
->order->predicable->safe
z Unbalance->noise
->chaos->random ->dangerous

z Expressiveness
z Implication
 Conflict in aesthetics
„ Facial Tattoo and cosmetic

Head and shoulders portrait of a

Talyal lady with Badasun
(Ataya facial tattoo);
She is qualify to weave cloth
Native American, Yucatec Maya
Māori man, his hair in a topknot with
feathers and a bone comb, full facial
moko, a greenstone earring, a tiki
and a flax cloak. He has a small
beard and a moustache.
Conflict in aesthetics

„ Dress

和服わふくwafuku
Conflict in aesthetics
„ Figure
 Conflict in aesthetics
„ Space arrangement

Japanese Rock Gardens (Zen Garden) Monet Styles Gardens

Karesansui かれさんすい
 Conflict in aesthetics

„ Building

Tao Tempo of Lur-Cheng-Kong(樂成宮), Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut,

Taichung, Taiwan, Anonymous, 1790. Ronchamp, France, Le Corbusier, 1955.
 The essence of aesthetical
conflict
External message
Internal Interpretive

Beauty
Perception

Axiology; quality or value

Social Atmosphere
Social
Social Culture
Culture
Anthropology
Anthropology Anthropology
Anthropology
Human Behaviors Pattern

Nature Resource; Ecology

 The Essence of Aesthetical
Conflict
1. Universality
2. Consciousness
3. Indigenize

Perception Perception Perception Perception

Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value

Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere

Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern

Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology

Africa
Africa Asia
Asia Europe
Europe America
America
 Discussion
Can we ease the Aesthetical Conflict!?
1. Consolidation!
2. Remix; Combination!
3. Not necessary, Leave it alone !
4. Deference and appreciation.

Perception Perception Perception Perception

Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value

Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere

Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern

Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology

Africa
Africa Asia
Asia Europe
Europe America
America
Thanks Your Attention!

ÆSTHETICS
Beauty is more than skin deep!

Cross-Culture Communication
Lecture: Dr. Noel W. Schutz Jr.

Speaker: Lawrenzo Hung-Chun Huang

National Chi Nan University
May 12, 2009