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Lilliput & Brobdingnag(Draft)
==Why==
[[File:Lilliput.jpg|300px|thumb|right]]
What this topic interested me is, “scale" is the feature truly appearing on every object, either in the real world or in our imagination. When this feature is limited on human body, there is a variety of datas can support our impression of it--the median height of American men is 5 feet 9, Dutch are the tallest average people,or children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about and inch and a half every 20 years... and so on. We analyse all the elements which have an impact on our height--nutrition, inheritance,sports and so on. We try different ways to make ourselves grow taller in a "normal" range, since if someone's height is too high or short, like gigantic or dwarf, other people will look at them weird.


But when we look at on all kinds of arts, all the works related to human figure, the scale of the human figure is hardly the same as the real size of human being. The most obvious phenomenon is,there are very few human figure statues is made in a  real size, especially those human-like gods statues. An interesting example is, in Taiwan, there is certain standard for the size of gods statue to place in different occasions. such as 5 feet 1 and half, 6 feet 2 and 6 feet 3 and a half are special for temple (in Taiwan measure standard).
On literature, either fairytale or myth, we can find different kinds of stories related to "giants" or "little people", which all have distinct difference on scale compared with human being.


==Definition==
[[ when what we imagination comes true, such as the appearance of an unicorn or angle, the awake of dinosaur,they will lead us to different feelings, either scare or wonder. But when we think about the feedback on human being ourselves, our reaction is mostly negative -- weird, curious and rejective. Somehow we draw this kind of "abnormal human being figures" in art again and again. This comparison is so evident, therefore cannot ignore it easily.]]
Little people and Giants here mean all the human figure which is in an obvious abnormal scale(either smaller or bigger than normal human beings), appearing in all different media types or art forms. And their outlooking is only different in size compared with human being, there is no malformation concluded.
==In Fairy Tales==
==Trace Back==
*Creation
There are many mythologies telling the beginning of human beings, and it usually uses the same model——after creating the world, the deity wants to make some creature which looks like him/her.Then he/she starts collecting materials( earth, air, water or other elements) to generate human beings.
*Lilliput
"Little people" have been part of the folklore of many cultures in human history, including Ireland, Greece, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Flores Island, Indonesia, China, Japan ,Native Americans and so on.  
*Brobdingnag
"Giant" appears more in mythologies and legends which presents power, wild and primeval.
[[File:Glassy Ocean.png|300px|thumb|right]]
[[File:David_大大大卫.jpg|300px|thumb|right]]
[[File: Giganitism.jpg|300px|thumb|right]]
 
==Multiple Media==
*Literature
Jonathan Swift <Gulliver’s Travels>
 
Kathleen Mary Norton <The Borrowers>
 
Antoine de Saint-Ecupery <The Little Prince>
 
*Animation
 
Hiromasa Yonebayashi <The Borrower Arrietty>
 
Shigeru Tamura <Glassy Ocean> <A Piece Of Phantasmagoria>
*Painting
Odilon Redon <The Cyclops>, 1898
*Sculpture
Ron Mueck
 
Zarko Baseski
 
* Real Life
 
Giganitism
 
==Ironics==
<Gulliver's Travels>
*lilliputians:
15 centimetres tall(in average)
 
Criminals must be punished, but people of good character must be rewarded.
 
Honest, truthful and good is the most important character for a lilliputian.
 
"Choosing officials because they are able to dance on a rope"--human nature is the same in every country.
 
The two political groups : the High-Heels and the Low-Heels.
(The way to distinguish these two groups is from which end people break the egg, larger one or smaller.)
 
Being jealous and feeling threatened by Gulliver( Secret enemy Flimnap)
 
Hypocrisy( Gulliver's friend Reldresal)
 
*Brobdingnag
 
The dwarf in Brobdingnag is 10 metres high.(He hates Guilliver so much since Gulliver is smaller than him. )
 
"because to them I was only an unimportant little creature.Irealized later that this often happens in England,when we laugh at someone of no family,fortune,or intelligence,who pretends to be as important as our great leaders."
 
The King of the Brobdingnag is wise and kind-hearted compares with the king of Lilliput.
==Awareness==
==References==  
01.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa#Creator
 
02.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issun-b%C5%8Dshi
 
03.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_d%27Aulnoy
 
04.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp
 
05.Max Lüthi ''The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man''
 
06.陳正治 ''童話寫作研究''
 
07.Roman Jakobson and Petr Bogatyrev  ''FOLKLORE AS A SPECIAL FORM OF CREATION''
 
08.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_people_(mythology)
 
09.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro-pok-guru
 
10.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_of_Mountains_and_Seas (靖人)
 
11.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_(mythology)
 
12.The Progress Big Man A Conversation with Ron Mueck by Sarah Tanguy 
 
http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag03/jul_aug03/mueck/mueck.shtml
 
13.ATHLETIC MEASURES: VIEWING AND ENGAGEMENT ON A HUMAN SCALE  http://www.glyphpdx.com/athletic-measures-viewing-engagement-human-scale/
 
14.Use Your Illusion http://www.artnews.com/2012/04/19/use-your-illusion/

Revision as of 08:51, 13 October 2014

Why

What this topic interested me is, “scale" is the feature truly appearing on every object, either in the real world or in our imagination. When this feature is limited on human body, there is a variety of datas can support our impression of it--the median height of American men is 5 feet 9, Dutch are the tallest average people,or children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about and inch and a half every 20 years... and so on. We analyse all the elements which have an impact on our height--nutrition, inheritance,sports and so on. We try different ways to make ourselves grow taller in a "normal" range, since if someone's height is too high or short, like gigantic or dwarf, other people will look at them weird.

But when we look at on all kinds of arts, all the works related to human figure, the scale of the human figure is hardly the same as the real size of human being. The most obvious phenomenon is,there are very few human figure statues is made in a real size, especially those human-like gods statues. An interesting example is, in Taiwan, there is certain standard for the size of gods statue to place in different occasions. such as 5 feet 1 and half, 6 feet 2 and 6 feet 3 and a half are special for temple (in Taiwan measure standard). On literature, either fairytale or myth, we can find different kinds of stories related to "giants" or "little people", which all have distinct difference on scale compared with human being.

[[ when what we imagination comes true, such as the appearance of an unicorn or angle, the awake of dinosaur,they will lead us to different feelings, either scare or wonder. But when we think about the feedback on human being ourselves, our reaction is mostly negative -- weird, curious and rejective. Somehow we draw this kind of "abnormal human being figures" in art again and again. This comparison is so evident, therefore cannot ignore it easily.]]

In Fairy Tales