NCKU professor publishes e-book Rudimentary Aesthetic - Noodls
An e-book about aesthetic published by Professor Guang-Ting Wu from the Department of Architecture at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, is now available for readers to download for free as PDF file from the cloud. Here is the website http://goo.gl/OyOqBX.
Wu is commissioned by the Ministry of Education (Aesthetic Education was listed as a national course in 2012) to produce
The e-book named Rudimentary Aesthetic provides readers visual aesthetic experience, and thus enhancing their feeling and taste of beauty, according to Wu.
He said, this book can be used as a course book or a reference book by teachers for Fine Arts education, and is evenly suitable for the general public to broaden the aesthetic experience, cultivate taste of beauty, develop our habits of observing surroundings and finally enrich our daily life.
According to Wu, every aspect of our life is related to aesthetics such as appliances, garment, architecture et cetera; however, without being inspired or cultivated through aesthetic acuity, we may ignore the beauty of life around us.
He points out that Japan is the most popular destination for Taiwanese travelers and the experience of visiting Japan includes a deep impression of a tasteful, clean and tidy environment. This impression of Japan is ultimately related to a holistic aesthetic feeling, which is the major reason why Taiwanese feel attracted and keep going, but for the majority it is too subtle to detect.
Yi-zhi Xiao, the editor of the book, points out that French fashion is perceived as tasteful worldwide. It can be furthermore learned that they have mastered the aesthetic relation to color, proportion, tactility, construction, and so forth. It can be said that aesthetic acuity is in their blood.
The six elements of aesthetic are: color, tactility, proportion, construction, structure, composition. Rudimentary Aesthetics regards color, proportion, tactility as well as composition as the four major factors.
Xiao noted, regarding aesthetics, every person possesses a basic ability of appreciation. In general, just by seeing more, aesthetic acuity can be established.
The editor of Rudimentary Aesthetics focuses on the development of beauty requirements. One approach is to let the reader continuously be exposed to beautiful illustrations. Rudimentary Aesthetics thus includes a total of 900 high quality illustrations. Each illustration matches with varying word length, guiding readers in understanding various aesthetics among the different combinations of color, proportion, tactility, composition etc.
In addition, at the end of each chapter, there is a reader questionnaire, so to let the reader digest and understand the concepts and messages, as well as a referral to the upcoming ebook and additional reference information by an APP. Furthermore, it will be appreciated that readers upload pictures conform the aesthetic elements mentioned in the chapter.
From uploading to the cloud in December 2014 till March 2015, Rudimentary Aesthetics has been downloaded more than 17,000 times and the feedback questionnaire was filled in 12,000 times, according to Xiao.
This result is quite positive and gratifies the editors and makes Rudimentary Aesthetics a widely useful book. The release of the APP is scheduled for April.
One of the features in the APP release is that you can click and enlarge the illustrations, thus making it more interactive to the reader. Besides, some feedback questionnaires in PDF format and uploaded illustrations by readers will also be available in the APP.
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Wu is commissioned by the Ministry of Education (Aesthetic Education was listed as a national course in 2012) to produce
The e-book named Rudimentary Aesthetic provides readers visual aesthetic experience, and thus enhancing their feeling and taste of beauty, according to Wu.
He said, this book can be used as a course book or a reference book by teachers for Fine Arts education, and is evenly suitable for the general public to broaden the aesthetic experience, cultivate taste of beauty, develop our habits of observing surroundings and finally enrich our daily life.
According to Wu, every aspect of our life is related to aesthetics such as appliances, garment, architecture et cetera; however, without being inspired or cultivated through aesthetic acuity, we may ignore the beauty of life around us.
He points out that Japan is the most popular destination for Taiwanese travelers and the experience of visiting Japan includes a deep impression of a tasteful, clean and tidy environment. This impression of Japan is ultimately related to a holistic aesthetic feeling, which is the major reason why Taiwanese feel attracted and keep going, but for the majority it is too subtle to detect.
Yi-zhi Xiao, the editor of the book, points out that French fashion is perceived as tasteful worldwide. It can be furthermore learned that they have mastered the aesthetic relation to color, proportion, tactility, construction, and so forth. It can be said that aesthetic acuity is in their blood.
The six elements of aesthetic are: color, tactility, proportion, construction, structure, composition. Rudimentary Aesthetics regards color, proportion, tactility as well as composition as the four major factors.
Xiao noted, regarding aesthetics, every person possesses a basic ability of appreciation. In general, just by seeing more, aesthetic acuity can be established.
The editor of Rudimentary Aesthetics focuses on the development of beauty requirements. One approach is to let the reader continuously be exposed to beautiful illustrations. Rudimentary Aesthetics thus includes a total of 900 high quality illustrations. Each illustration matches with varying word length, guiding readers in understanding various aesthetics among the different combinations of color, proportion, tactility, composition etc.
In addition, at the end of each chapter, there is a reader questionnaire, so to let the reader digest and understand the concepts and messages, as well as a referral to the upcoming ebook and additional reference information by an APP. Furthermore, it will be appreciated that readers upload pictures conform the aesthetic elements mentioned in the chapter.
From uploading to the cloud in December 2014 till March 2015, Rudimentary Aesthetics has been downloaded more than 17,000 times and the feedback questionnaire was filled in 12,000 times, according to Xiao.
This result is quite positive and gratifies the editors and makes Rudimentary Aesthetics a widely useful book. The release of the APP is scheduled for April.
One of the features in the APP release is that you can click and enlarge the illustrations, thus making it more interactive to the reader. Besides, some feedback questionnaires in PDF format and uploaded illustrations by readers will also be available in the APP.
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