Entering Fengming Elementary School in New Taipei City’s Yingge District is like entering a city of ceramic art. You are greeted by colorful ceramic mosaics and surrounded by a variety of ceramic murals and public art. “A visit to Fengming Elementary School shows you the prosperity of the ceramic industry in Yingge,” said Principal Liu Wen-chang.
Just days ago, the mural New Six Arts – Art at Fengming was completed at Fengming Elementary School. This is an inlay ceramic piece made by this year’s graduates, teachers, and local ceramic artists. The original “six arts” were rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy and mathematics. In addition, there are another dozen artworks in the school, such as a six-story-tall mosaic mural titled Advent of the Phoenix.
These ceramic artworks not only serve as architectural ornaments making the campus more colorful and bright, they also allow visitors to the campus to gain a deeper understanding of Yingge’s local culture, Liu said.
Photo: Hsieh Chia-chun, Taipei Times
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Ceramic artist Pan Chen-tsai said Liu incorporated a lot of ingenuity in the works in an attempt to make these ceramic pieces more than works of art, but rather works with profound meaning behind them. Through careful appreciation, people can gain an understanding of this meaning, and students can enrich their knowledge.
(LIBERTY TIMES, TRANSLATED BY LIN YA-TI)
走進新北市鶯歌區鳳鳴國小，宛如置身一座陶藝城，映入眼簾的是色彩繽紛的陶藝拼貼創作，被各式各樣的陶藝牆與公共藝術包圍。校長劉文章說：「來到鳳鳴國小，就能認識鶯歌興盛的陶瓷產業！」
鳳鳴國小藝術牆《新六藝─藝遊鳳鳴》日前揭牌，這是一幅由應屆畢業生、師長及在地陶藝藝術家合力完成的陶瓷鑲嵌作品，原「六藝」指的是：禮、樂、射、御、書與數。除此之外，校內還有六層樓高的馬賽克公共藝術牆《鳳凰來儀》等十餘創作。
Photo: Hsieh Chia-chun, Taipei Times
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劉說，這些陶藝創作不僅將校園建築物妝點得更繽紛亮麗，民眾來到校園，就能對鶯歌在地文化有深層的認識。
陶藝藝術家潘鎮材說，劉校長在作品中融入許多巧思，試圖讓這些陶瓷不僅是藝術，還富含許多意義。細細品玩，就能領會箇中含意，學生也能豐富知識。
（自由時報記者謝佳君）
Photo: Hsieh Chia-chun, Taipei Times
照片：自由時報記者謝佳君
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