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Vol.13, No.0, 103 ~ 117, 2006
Title
Study on the Role of Graffiti in Modern Illustration and Pop Culture
김재원 Kim Jae Won
Abstract
This study defines illustration as the part of the formative arts which contribute to the conveyance of visual information and the creation of new visual environment one of communication tools in present-day society. This study defines graffiti illustration as the part of illustration which includes graffiti which is human`s primitive communication behavior. Graffiti is the expression of unconsciousness appeared in the realm of the subconscious. Around the 10th century when the interest in the revelation of unconsciousness was increased, people tried to interpret graffiti as the clue to understand the nature of human being ness as the form of art. From those times, people started to accept graffiti as one part of fine arts. Graffiti illustration has formed the unique and independent value in the filed of illustration based on its own unique forms of expression. It is applied to the overall matters of the society, emerging as the persuasive illustration which reflects the artist`s belief, sense of value, emotion and thought. The graffiti illustration presents the slice of reality by expressing the internal emotion of an artist. So it plays the instant and general role to convey the intention of an artist. As a result, it has been spot lighted as the valuable form of arts in this information society. Those who are living in the structure of today`s capitalism have inevitably many mental problems. Extensively, they suffer from solitude, a sense of alienation, inhumanness, loss of value. Along those, they are also suffering from the psychological problems or metal disease, selfishness, and many kinds of stresses from suppression, which are created by the competitive society. The solution for those problems is to secure new recognition about the original nature of human being, and the suppression which we consider uncivilized. To do this, it is recommend to find the way to solve problems through the emotion, instead of the reason. Graffiti illustration should be valued as the visual language for the social communication. And the follow-up researches on the graffiti illustration should be conducted.
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