ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

In contemporary sculptural art, repetition goes beyond the reproduction of identical forms to generate difference, while variation functions as a compositional strategy that intentionally alters the arrangement, orientation, and proportion of modules within repetitive structures. This induces expectation and disruption, tension and resolution, thereby deepening the viewer’s perceptual flow and emotional response. This study investigates how modular repetition and variation construct sensory order and sculptural rhythm, and analyzes these processes both theoretically and practically through a brass candlestick series produced by the researcher. As its theoretical framework, the study applies Rudolf Arnheim’s theory of visual perception and John Dewey’s theory of artistic experience, examining how structures of repetition and variation establish sensory order through balance and rhythm and how this order expands into immersive experience through temporality and the flow of emotion. The brass candlesticks, composed of five modular types combined through repetition and variation, generate perceptual tension and visual rhythm, while the materiality of brass, in conjunction with the structural form, elicits intensified affective experiences. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to clarify how repetition and variation as a formative principle construct a sensory order that encompasses structural stability, perceptual transformation, and emotional immersion, and to determine how this order functions as an aesthetic language mediating sense and emotion in contemporary sculptural art.

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