Focus Taiwan
Date: 01/08/2020
By: Sabine Cheng and Matthew Mazzetta
Taipei, Jan. 8 (CNA) One of the winning entries in a recent design contest organized by Taiwan's National Palace Museum is notable not only for its ability to appeal aesthetically to museum-goers, but also make their stomachs growl.
Wang Pei-en (王蓓恩) and Liu Chia-hsin (劉家欣) took home a top prize in the museum's 8th "National Treasure Merchandise Design Competition," for a grass jelly pudding modeled on — or rather, moulded into — a mountain peak depicted in a famous Chinese landscape painting.
The piece was one of 869 submissions to last year's contest, in which artists used the museum's Open Data image database to design pieces based on the theme "folk customs."
Taking their inspiration from "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains," a 1350 painting by Huang Gongwang (黃公望), Wang and Liu moulded the Jello-like Taiwanese dessert into a black mountain scene set in relief, which, when juxtaposed against the traditional cream topping, appears to tower above low-hanging white clouds. [FULL STORY]