By the effect of industrialization, the rapidly changing modern society faced the diversification of living environment and according to the inflow of western civilization, our aesthetic sense, namely traditional spirit begins to disappear and seems t...
By the effect of industrialization, the rapidly changing modern society faced the diversification of living environment and according to the inflow of western civilization, our aesthetic sense, namely traditional spirit begins to disappear and seems to change. Notwithstanding the changes of the times and living structure, even today Bandaji(Cabinet) is still highly valued, which was very popular and useful among the common people during chosun dynasty, because of its simple formativeness and natural beauty. Therefore, rather than indiscreet imitation of western countries, we may accept the practical and functional spirit of them, and try to create unique view of Korean design simultaneously.
Based on the formative characteristics of Bandaji, one of the inner room furniture during chosun dynasty, this study examined aesthetic sense inherent in Bandaji through the method of structural analysis in semiotics and identified the relations between application of modern furniture and its meaning.
As a result of this study, it showed the structural aesthetics visually with ying and yang in shape and structure, and natural beauty with utilizing the method of characteristics of tree as it is in materials and finishing. The patterns of decorative expressions prefer curves to straight line, so it showed well-balanced beauty of curve with uniqueness. Furthermore, in case of metal decoration, by using inexpensive iron it was identified that aesthetic sense of common people search after comfort and stability by emphasizing simpleness and plainness in spite of its roughness. As stated above, traditional korean furniture put great emphasis on balance and harmony in confucianism culture during the chosun dynasty and unique beauty of formativeness were shown well through aesthetic sense following the law of nature.
The method of structural analysis in semiotics originally developed in order to analyze the semantic structure of language, and has also been used recently to obtain semantic understanding in various artistic fields. This paper showed that the method was a very useful approach for analyzing the aesthetic and ideological semantic structure inherent in furniture as well.
Consequently, this study not only discovers the values of bandaji, our own special traditional beauty, by examining the meaning analysis of modern furniture works, which become Korean sentiment, with consideration of the traditional image, but also it is expected that the semiotic analysis method proposed in this study will provide a basic direction for developing meaning and ideas in design on the Korean's unique spirit.