Ornament in human is the results of free and creative artistic motivations having been carried out under specific objective consciousness. The ornament at arts could be said as materialized expressions of human spirits by representational volitions ra...
Ornament in human is the results of free and creative artistic motivations having been carried out under specific objective consciousness. The ornament at arts could be said as materialized expressions of human spirits by representational volitions rather than functions.
This study is aimed to rediscover its meanings through plastic art analysis and psychological researches on the ornament. By doing so, the study lights up the phase that the ornament has in the modern painting, and intends to give a help in narrowing distanced between the public and arts through analyzing and interpreting study works creatively utilizing the concept of ornament further.
In order to achieve research purposes, this study looked into how the ornament has been changed historically in advance. As the results, the study confirmed that human life and ornament had close association, and recognized a fact that ideological background and recognition system affected to various influences to the ornament’s changes.
Next, the study researched focusing on existing discourses about the ornament such as Alois Riegl, John Ruskin, and Owen Jones. This was to watch how the decoration has formed certain discourses in visual arts, architecture, and design fields, and the reason was derived from a fact that the aspect of modern arts has been diversified to the directions of being dismantled in genres and boundaries. In this part, the study could examine a fact that the division and boundary between mental activities and expression forms were being vague.
And then, in order to search about how the ornament was being utilized in the modern painting actually, this study analyzed artworks of Robert Zakanitch, Ed Moses, and Louise Bourgeois etc from 3 viewpoints of perception-cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, and healing psychology. In the perception-cognitive psychology, the ornament shall be treated subordinately so that it could be expressed alive in the painting work. If the ornament tries to be showy extremely, or do dependent functions, order senses of the painting work rather gets from disturbances. From the respects of psychoanalysis, the ornament is repetition of specific subjects and means repeated acts. The repletion expressed from ornament is results of natural human behaviors as rhythm and tempos that are inherent in human instincts. When looking into the ornament from the viewpoint of healing psychology, it gives pleasures to artists creating artworks and joys to viewers.
By applying and expanding theoretical reviews on the ornament and analyzing results on the sample artists, this study analyzed <from the nature>(2003-2010), a study work that has been presented with forms of series by spread processes.
Step 1 (2003-2005) was the work process of treating recognition on the nature image and then patterning it formally, and <Symbiosis> and <Origins> were representative works. These works were expressing the other side of nature, that is, natural laws in the universe order with paintings. In plastics, it caused eye movement on the transformed plane by giving texture of uneven to it. <Flower rain> and <Azalia-White night> corresponded to step 2 (2006-2009) were concentrated on aesthetic expressions of tactile space and psychological expressions of flower image through lights and colors. In step 3, it tried reproduction of realistic images along with diversification of image expressions by introducing technical intermediates to paintings. Its representative works could be stated such like <Target> and <Owl>.
As the results of analysis, common characteristic and expected effects of research works are same as followings. Research works is interpretations as ornament on the allocation’s infinity that can be founded out in nature. This is based on the ontological awareness such like arts is along the same lines with nature phenomenon, not being processed artificially. Human has tendencies of ordering regularity of the nature world such as symmetry, proportionality, and directivity innately after recognizing it. At this time, the behavior of ordering itself is accommodation and adaptation to the natural laws, not processing it.
On the other hand, research works are adhering to carefully refusing attitudes on the ornamental vanity. Modern paintings could be felt to the degree of luxury owing to excessive flamboyance and unnecessary agile feature, but this is not more than deluding our eyes by being tumbled down to empty ornament. In a word, research works are analyzed as keeping temperate lines so as not to go forward to ornamental vanity, even though it implies traditional meanings and then expands its effects by utilizing ornamental patterns of modern and post-modern paintings.
Also, research works is composed of ‘ornament of senses on the order’ stated in perception-cognitive psychology. This is showing balances between monotony and confusion through creation and distinction of ornamental pattern structures along with recomposing limitless allocations having been spread in the natural world at the same time. Therefore, research works provides comfortable feelings to people like nature, and further gives a help in enjoying order senses in the complexity, and thus this study expects it as an intermediate of being able to narrow gaps between the public and arts.