ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

Flowers have been a source of inspiration for beauty in all areas of human culture, including everyday life and arts. Flower Design is a field of formative arts with flowers as its medium, but regarding the subject of objective aesthetics, the research for its aesthetic beauty, are still weak. Thus, exploring the objectivity of the beauty of flowers is expected to open up an another chapter of its aesthetics with a new interpretation of flowers. This study aims to systematize the aesthetic principle of flowers in quantitative ways based on the flower’s figurative elements. The process of the research was developed with the botanical flower corolla classification system to analyze the shaping elements according to the shape of the flower, and conducted the scope of the classification of the flower accordingly. However, considering the differences in the scope of botanical classification, 103 flowers out of a total of 114 types derived from six different classifications based on related books and Internet data were included in the analysis, excluding those classified as a single type or with different criteria. First according to the results of the study, the scope and contents of the formative corolla from the shape of the flowers, were organized into 18 categories, and some of the missing parts of the botanical classification system have been added. Second, the symmetry of flowers, especially the radial symmetry with pentagonal flowers, and the lightness contrast were found to be prominent. Third, based on this, the formative corolla and color analysis module system was organized. Although the range of flower cases were limited, this study confirmed the possibility of an objective measurement for the beauty of flowers by analysing the flower’s formative characteristics as quantitative factors, and the integrated analysis module for the element forms of a corolla presented in the study is expected to be the basis for subsequent research on flower object aesthetics, depending on the purpose and field of the use of flowers in the future.

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