Color and Culture Education in Taiwan

To promote the learning and use of Taiwan’s cultural colors, Xue Xue Foundation devoted long-term efforts to building a database of pictures and colors related to Taiwanese culture, and in 2011 launched the Xue Xue Colors website, which enables the use of works from the digital archives in real-life classes on aesthetics. Working with local museums and other repository institutions, as well as experts, artists, and photographers, we have collected works of art and nature photographs and grouped them into sub-categories, such as festivals and customs, performance art, historical monuments, traditional costumes, landscapes and scenery, animals and insects, plants and flowers, etc. These have been used to create an archive of images that can be used, like a “look-book”, by people seeking inspiration from Taiwan’s cultural colors. The images are of works in a wide range of media: watercolor, ink, oil, prints, pastel, photographs, etc. The website also includes an archive for practicing color coordination, allowing art teachers and students and the general public to learn about Taiwanese colors, create their own color chips, practice matching colors, and in turn better understand how to make use of Taiwan’s cultural colors to develop unique Taiwanese looks.

As of 2017, the “look-book” page of the Xue Xue Colors website includes images of 9,224 works authorized by 860 artists or photographers.

The Xue Xue Colors website has been officially recommended for use in elementary and junior high schools by the Ministry of Education as a teaching aid in aesthetic education. The website now has more than 1,711 iconic works by Taiwanese artists that are mentioned in the art or humanities textbooks of elementary and junior high schools.

Art teachers in Taiwan can use this cloud database free of charge to guide their students, using art works and photos, on a journey to discover Taiwanese artists and learn about how an artist matches colors by imitating nature. They can also make use of the freely available XUE XUE COLORS App to take their students on trips to collect photos of local sites, observe their cultural colors, and use the colors to create their own works of art or apply them to something else.

Designers from all the cultural and creativity industries can also search the picture archives for certain artists and/or themes, and then record the 10 main colors from a particular work along with their color codes in various industry-wide formats such as HEX, RGB, LAB and CMYK. Thus, the website can be used as a color selection tool when designers communicate with their clients, providing color schemes that tell cultural stories.





 
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