鄭問中國水墨史傳漫畫的敘事美學

The Narrative Aesthetics of Ink Painting in Chen Uen’s Chinese Ink History Comics

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

歷史該擁有怎樣被敘事的形式？特定形式是否影響歷史敘事的質感？曾獲得日本漫畫家協會優秀賞、臺灣省編譯館優良漫畫首獎肯定的鄭問，以其史傳漫畫説明連續圖像，如何也能爲巨大的歷史造像，成爲公衆習得歷史知識的有效渠道。而鄭問更運用中國水墨虛實技巧，爲歷史敘事提供述説表現的可能。具體來看，鄭問史傳漫畫之水墨虛實技藝，爲人物筆墨提供立意造型，爲空間構圖提供符號佈局，爲敘事分鏡提供對焦與推進，賦予歷史敘事以美學。

What is the narrative form of history? Does a particular form affect the quality of historical narration? The Taiwanese comic artist Chen Uen (1958-2017) received an Excellence Award from the Japan Cartoonists Association in 1991 and won the Best Comic title from Taiwan’s National Institute for Compilation and Translation in 1986. He uses his historical comics to prove that continuous images can also create figuration for historical events and characters, which become an effective channel for the public to acquire historical knowledge. Moreover, Chen Uen applies the techniques of “abstract-and-concrete combination of ink painting” to present historical narration. Specifically, Chen’s unparalleled skills in using the abstract-and-concrete combination of ink painting in his historical comics provide the conceptual figuration for character ink painting, symbol layout for spatial composition, and the practice of focusing and zooming-in techniques for narrative storyboards, significantly endowing historical narration with aesthetics.