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Study on the visual signs and aesthetic value in Korean modern art through Nature Motif

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2016, 49(), pp.125-164
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.49.0.05
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Published : November 30, 2016

Lee Joo Young 1

1서원대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study suggests the need for a semiotic study of modern and contemporary art in Korea and explores the symbol as a visual sign that forms the uniqueness of Korean beauty. To do this, the researcher first explored, through types of research into semiotics aesthetics, how the aesthetic values are discussed from the semiotic point of view. Those results were then applied to the field of visual signs for an analysis of the aesthetic values of Korean modern and contemporary art. Nature is the most important aesthetic value flowing through Korean modern and contemporary art. Signs, which express nature, are not themselves aesthetic but become so for the signification of signs that symbolize fundamental nature. Korean artists show a philosophical reflection on nature's motives more than they form a nature beautifully surrounding us. They express the aesthetic value of nature, asking about its fundamental meaning through visual signs that suggest it. When this meaning of sign is understood and its value viewed in the context of acceptance, it can occur in the context of conventions for sign interpretation and of society. The main semiotic characteristics suggestive of nature in Korean modern and contemporary art are point, line and circle. Point and line are basic units of expression for Korean painters; their abstract paintings are mainly based on these two units. Point is a minimum means to imply the infinite. Artists make use of the line repeatedly, seeking to express the rhythm and repetition of life and the infinity of the universe. Circles, begun and expanded from the point, embrace everything. Contingency is an artistic gesture to express that human purpose is not entirely involved. Blank space is nature's speech as well as information, both including what cannot be expressed. Artists prefer natural materials such as clay, sand, stone, wood, and hanji, and use them to reveal the most intrinsic properties of nature. They keep their distance from the intention to create the perfect work and let nature penetrate at any time. This attitude is a symbolic representation that humanity is a part of nature. Korean modern and contemporary artists want to express through visual signs creation and change, the invisible essence of nature. Nature appears as a metaphor for what ultimately cannot be expressed.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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