| Abstract |
| This paper has ventured to propose that the Choson artistic products, especially craft-illustrations, had some clearly modern characteristics in every dimension of creation and were based on a kind of modern design. The Choson craft-illustrations have composed its visual elements generated of the mathematical and reasonable accumulation which had been made by Choson peoples` lifework.
A semiotical analysis was used to illustrate the above points, it could be investigated from figurative and artistic expressions in craft-illustration and explain its some features in style.
Firstly, the Choson craft-illustration reveals its modern character in abstract tendency which supports itself by growing to abstraction of the real figures. This character permits us to consider a standardization of the illustration. Secondly, the Choson craft-illustration reveals its textualization effect, transformation from a genre to the another, by stressing a integration of source original materiality and spirituality as well. It means that it has realized some re-mediation process of which our modern men discuss largely and deeply on its cause and result. Thirdly, the Choson craft-illustration reveals that the letters could be a important design element in the domain. The typographism was appeared in the craft-illustration in its large application. Abstractism, texualization and typographism were the major characters of the Choson craft-illustration, which aren`t different in every aspect from the modern one.
These main characters of the Choson craft-illustration show that our contemporary aesthetic and design in Digital age is not in its unique industrial and modern historical course, but also in our universal tradition which is actually performant.
Civilized of itself, the Choson has revealed important human and social competences for sophisticated craft and culturally deep products by overcoming the pure naturalist or non activist lives that many art critics had commented on. |
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| Key Words |
| 조선공예, 문양, 근대적 양상, Choson craft, Illustration, Modern aspects |
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