Military dependents’ villages- special culture landscapes of Taiwan, were built by the government when moved to Taiwan in emergence after 1949. Those were built in a hurry; therefore, those were not especially stable in terms of material and structural which would affect the public safety and the appearance of the city. The military dependents’ villages were facing the fate of pull down and rebuild and were vanishing. In recent years, the people in the military dependents’ village and historical and human scholars put efforts to protect the culture. Only a few of the military dependents’ villages were determined as precious historical remains. As time goes by, the numbers of the villages were less and less and most of those were destroyed and ruined. Now, we can only use images and pictures to record this special culture.
This article aims on the ink paintings of the author on the military dependents’ villages and makes deepen analysis and research. There are five chapters in this article; the main points of each chapter are described as follow:
Chapter 1: Introduction. This chapter describes the author’s research motivation, purpose, scope, methods, and limits.
Chapter 2: The literature of the military dependents’ village. There are four sections in this chapter. First section discusses the origin of the military dependents’ villages. Second section describes the forms of the villages. The types of the villages are introduced in section three. And section four talks about the feature of the village.
Chapter 3: The paintings of the military dependents’ village. The first section of the two sections introduces the paintings of the military dependents’ villages in the field of paintings, “Self-governed Village” by Su, Wang-Shen and “Ming-De Village” by Lee, Ming-Ze. The second section analysis the paintings of the military dependents’ villages published in academic, compare and contrast the paintings with the actual photos.
Chapter 4: The creation ideal and practice of the buildings of the military dependents’ villages. There are three sections in this chapter. The first section is the analysis of the author’s ideal of creating the military dependents’ village. The second section is the practice of the creation ideal. The third chapter is the interpretation of the author’s work.
Chapter 5: Conclusion.
