Among traditional Indigenous arts in Taiwan, carving is both an important and ubiquitous phenomena. Especially for the Paiwan Indigenous people, carving is a prominent feature of cultural and artistic expression, addressing traditional cultural beliefs and spiritual value. Based on the Gestalt theory of visual context, this study analyzes visual construction, patterns, and symbols expressed on the selected Paiwan Indigenous carvings. Through the analytic perspectives on the "Visual field" of the works, the aim of this study is to discuss aesthetic perception and mode of the Indigenous art, with the presupposition which can be discovered embedded in the mechanism of cultural ethos and the authentic nature of art.
Keywords
Paiwan Indigenous carving, analysis on visual context, visual field