화예작품을 활용한 그림책 창작의 연구 = A Study of Floral Art and Design Applied to Picture Book Creation

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Due to rapid industrialization and urbanization in 20th century, the chances got scarcer for today`s children to encounter and interact with nature. However, to familiarize children with nature and thus to enhance a nature-friendly attitude in their life, it is important to expose them to nature early in life as childhood is a critical stage for developing emotions and senses of values. Floral design uses nature and natural subjects as main materials and themes. Therefore, when combined with a proper field, floral design can help children develop nature-friendly attitude. This study aims to indirectly expose children living in nature-deprived environment to nature by adapting floral design to children`s picture books. Picture book is a medium easily accessible to children and floral design applied to picture books can enrich children`s emotion with natural images while experiencing nature firsthand is not possible. Firstly, the concept of picture books and representation techniques are explored to help understanding picture book illustration. Then, with examples of picture book illustrations using natural objects, we will look into the need for picture books with natural elements in growing nature-friendly children. Finally, some scenes from researcher`s own picture book with floral art works were presented as possible examples that can promote a children`s intimacy toward nature. Using floral art works in picture books have certain difficulties in choosing techniques, materials and in expressiveness compared to other traditional ways to create picture books, but it is a worthwhile attempt to deliver liveliness of nature minimizing degeneration of natural objects by using them in their own forms.We hope this study would promote likely attempts and become a stepping stone for other works using floral art as a form in picture book creating.