The Creation of Phoenix Chinese Character Kinetic Sculpture

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to create kinetic sculpture art symbols from 2D Chinese characters. The study was divided into three steps:

Firstly, the researchers searched the historical literature on the creation of 3D art of Chinese characters and the creation of kinetic-art of characters, and found that the creation of 3D kinetic sculpture art of Chinese characters is an almost blank field.

Secondly, the researcher took Phoenix Chinese character as an example to conduct an exploratory experiment. Through the classification experiment of 2D to 3D transformation in Chinese calligraphy, combined with the experimental data and questionnaire data of each stage, the researcher locked in the four principles of creating 3D Chinese artistic symbols: 1. The overall balance and stability of the work; 2. The pictographic character of the space line when viewed from the side; 3. The immutable character of the space line when viewed from the front; 4. The artistic aesthetics of line construction.

Finally, the researchers named these four principles as the “Theory of Spiral Balance”, which creates kinetic sculptures of Chinese characters. This theory has become a new theoretical system of knowledge in this study. Meanwhile, the researchers have successfully created 12 three-dimensional sculptures with 12 Chinese characters as examples, thus verifying the validity of this theory. Finally, at the suggestion of the professor, the researcher took Phoenix Chinese character as an example and created eight works of art with different kinetics.

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