User:Chen Junyu/graduation/theise/project proposal/Draft:EMO

Lilliput & Brobdingnag(Draft)

Outline

First of all, list different stories (on literature) and art works in different media where little people and giants appear. Explain the bound between Little people/Giants with other fantastic characters, such as dwarf, fairies, demon and spirit. Describe the features of little people/giants in scale, movements, habits，lifestyle and physical world view. Describe our feelings to LP/G. Address the reason of why we tend to create imaging human-like characters in abnormal size: it leads us to go into a world of imagination and creation. we could manage to place ourselves into this special world. And the impact of scale in different art pieces.

Definition

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.

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.

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.

Conclusion（？）

(it is all about the perception LP and GG give to human being) Giants: Usually giants or gigantism impress people about [ powerful, slowly, wild, stupid and rude] Little people: [mysterious, fragile， The perception of viewer to human figure which in an amazing small or giant size is complexed.It can be scary, mystery, confused or even morbid. hyperrealistic The only positive point is it trigger audiences' imagination about the existence of the world which exiting beyond the true one.

References

• Mythology&Folklore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa#Creator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issun-b%C5%8Dshi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_people_(mythology)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro-pok-guru

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_of_Mountains_and_Seas (靖人）

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_(mythology)

• Others

The Progress Big Man A Conversation with Ron Mueck by Sarah Tanguy http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag03/jul_aug03/mueck/mueck.shtml

ATHLETIC MEASURES: VIEWING AND ENGAGEMENT ON A HUMAN SCALE http://www.glyphpdx.com/athletic-measures-viewing-engagement-human-scale/

Use Your Illusion http://www.artnews.com/2012/04/19/use-your-illusion/