The purpose of this study is to recognize how surrealistic art trend is reflected on the design for modern women's shoes through grasping the way the trend is expressed on female shoes, and to shed new light on the artistic value of the shoes for wome...
The purpose of this study is to recognize how surrealistic art trend is reflected on the design for modern women's shoes through grasping the way the trend is expressed on female shoes, and to shed new light on the artistic value of the shoes for women through analyzing the figurative features of the design for the women's shoes. This is to suggest one of the ways to review the modern people's rapidly changing structure of mind set, the value of the world of spirit, and living sense. Futhermore, another purpose is to enable the expression of design work to get help from pure art that satisfies basic desire for pursuit of new human sensitivity, and also to practically help the industrial design to create artistic idea and develop higher value-added work.
I searched for the features of surrealistic expression in the new genre of women's shoes as a source of idea for design, and sought to identify the artistic value of them through categorizing them according to figurativeness, and analyzing the results.
The results of the study are as following:
First, surrealistic thinking has a feature of unique idea and its development, which means it broke from classical and rational convention. It is applied to women's shoes, and it expressed the idea and shape going beyond tradition of reasonable thinking and rational development process by denying or dismantling rules. Surrealism has come to express dreams, hallucination, and human instincts, which led to the hallucinative interpretation and expression of art. This is the transposition of consciousness to artistic expression. Automatism and paranoiac critical method was studied in order to express internal subject and these were applied to the extensive range from pure art to the design for women's shoes.
Second, surrealists delivered the emotions impossible in reality and basic thinking via combining of the images of unrealistic shapes, and dismantled the conventional shape of beauty. Their exploring the instinct by surrealistic ideas of irregularity, disorder, and asymmetry resulted in new interpretation of the figurativeness of women's shoes and it was expressed with symbolism and sensitivity in various images.
Third, I found that the features of pure art and the surrealistic expression in the design for women's shoes have the similarity in the whole process that the creation of shape starts from the self consciousness. And it was possibly expected that both are the same idea in the contents side of personal subjects and visual symbolism that elements of shape and the way of expression have.
The design of women's shoes is an extended concept that has the subjective artistic expression of designers in the center of it, going beyond the limited concept of universal shape based on functional tradition, and is being developed into modern art that expresses the impulse of consciousness and unconsciousness. The surrealistic figurative expression of the design for women's shoes is the true development of consciousness and unconsciousness, and performs the function that recovers personal sense of beauty and fantasy which were not able to be discovered because they existed out of consciousness through expressing activity. It is to discover the true identity of self, and help modern people that are experiencing isolation from nature and society feel hope and sensitivity and feel pleasant.
I hope that various experiments with the figurative expression of the design for women's shoes are conducted and touching works are created as works of art, and artistic expression is applied to the entire area of design related with industrial design in order to create new value.
While I conducted the study, I could realized that the theoretical system about the aesthetic side of the design for women's shoes is needed, and the design for women's shoes is the area that we can enhance the possibility of artistic expression in association with figurative art. In addition, I hope that the efforts to create new aesthetic value should proceed through actively exploring and experimenting with creative sense of beauty, and have great impact on the industries relevant to the artistic area.