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Lilliput & Brobdingnag(Draft)
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
Perception/Reaction
<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
The perception of viewer to human figure which in an amazing small or giant size is complexed.It can be scary, The only positive point is it trigger audiences' imagination about the existence of the world which exiting beyond the true world.
Compare Ron Mueck with Zarko Baseki's work, they both focus on create human figure in abnormal size.
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）