Abstract
Comparing with 'real' art materials such as woods, stones, and metals, the current evaluationtoward synthetic resins such as epoxy resin is unbelievably low; Many artists believe blindlysynthetic resins are just 'cheap' substitutes for 'real' materials and don't even try to know theirreal characteristics... Especially, epoxy resin has been left in the miserable situation... onlyfew know how to use it. ... This is definitely unfair.This paper is an attempt to shed light on the awful underestimation toward synthetic resins through four practical studies, taking epoxy resin as an example.Through this research, it isclearly showed that synthetic resins possess high potentiality as art materials and further rich possibility to open new horizon of Art making. (Received: May 25,2000)
