Does it mean "ugly" not to be beautiful? In general, of course, ugliness is a concept contrasted to beauty. It is against aesthetic and aesthetic rules. It is easily found in reality, natural phenomena or spiritual world. Sometimes it is combined in a...
Does it mean "ugly" not to be beautiful? In general, of course, ugliness is a concept contrasted to beauty. It is against aesthetic and aesthetic rules. It is easily found in reality, natural phenomena or spiritual world. Sometimes it is combined in art.
The 18th century art is an art for beauty that has no relation with ugliness. Ugliness was treated as denial of beauty. Hegel or Vischer, in their aesthetics, asserted that ugliness would have negative aspects, undermining purity of ideas.
In the 19th century,[Rosen Kranz,] in his "Aesthetics of Ugliness" maintained that in order to represent phenomena of ideas on the whole, arts must not take ugliness lightly and instead encompass all positive and negative aspects, that is, concept of ugliness. In the aesthetics of [Lipps], ugliness plays a great part or becomes a backdrop that makes beauty more highlighted as 'an object of passive empathy', and there is a certain kind of beauty which needs necessarily ugliness to realize its beauty itself.
Tuning to the 21st century, things grotesque have become to be considered all the bizarrerie which are absurd, weird, degenerated, or abnormal, moving into the center of culture. And thus, things placed against grotesque seem to be pushed back from the center. The grotesque starts when reality is deviated from reason and comon sense. Life of the grotesque is maintained by abnormal behaviors beyond given boundary.
Such vitality is represented in numerous areas including arts, design, and culture. The origin of the world dates back to the 16th century. It has been since used in various ways until the end of the 20th century, speaking for social insecurity, economic poverty, pressure of machine civilization and sharp contrast of social status, following the world war Ⅱ. In each section of arts and design, it has greatly contributed to the diversification of representation as an extended concept of beauty.
While the grotesque phenomena have been constantly changing in arts and design, the floral plastic art takes the grotesque image as extension of various aesthetic expression, accepting its claim to be placed as one of plastic languages, and comes up with suggstions to diversify paradoxical and metaphorical presentation.
The floral plastic art has some limitation in work activity in that there leaves much to be considered in association with lack of durability in plastic shapes. But it is very encouraging that it can be easily approached as one of plastic activities representing symbolic beauty. And thus, he floral plastic art can be said to have diverse features in it. So, the floral plastic art is a special form of plastic art that can express at once such limited aspects and symbolic aspects of already composed beauty, and it has a scope of activity which intrinsic area has sufficient possibility to be extended.
The floral plastic art which has a special temporal factor different from other general arts, has delayed extending its scope and demonstrate its value and research. It is more resonable that beauty comes from ugliness than this is resulted from that. Languages of plastic art include ugliness, and in order to pursue the beauty, we should first recognize and make efforts to apply significance of ugliness, breaking away from conventional limitation in the floral plastic art.
Accordingly, this study will double the satisfaction from getting out of fixed way of research and consciousness of beauty through grotesque expression in floral plastic art. With revitalization of "time", a special plastic form that the floral plastic art has, this will serve as an active factor to secure its place in the plastic art activity.