"Good question is greater than the brilliant answer." said Louis H. Kahn. That means it is worth for designers recognizing the given situations and causing questions for themselves. Then what should be the questions to help the tree port cities of Bus...
"Good question is greater than the brilliant answer." said Louis H. Kahn. That means it is worth for designers recognizing the given situations and causing questions for themselves. Then what should be the questions to help the tree port cities of Busan, Shanghai and Fukuoka improved?
The visual image of design is one of precious practical ways in daily life such as words and letters, and it can be reproduced, experienced and pursued in culture. I wonder if I should try to acquire techniques of design in a passive way within the product theory, marketing theory, and efficiency theory considering a design, a product of industrial society, as other products. I think design should be considered not as a professional technique for production but as one of studies and culture. Therefore I tried to find out the similarity of the three countries of Korea, China and Japan in design in their history as a way to help them improve in culture.
In Asia China has led the oriental culture and influenced Korea and Japan to share its painting technique, fashion and unique view of beauty.
The similarities in the three countries are as follows:
First, Confucianism was the political ideology in the three countries in the 16th century, second, they were interested in Taoism and Buddhism, and the theme and tools (paper, brush, ink, color, and so on) for painting were same.
Every art style of person, group and even nation may be spontaneous and original but sometimes it is imitated intentionally by the influence from other cultures. Most of the influences of the foreign culture tum to be recreated and characterized in its own culture according to its unique view of beauty through imitation and transformation. Thus, here the similarities and differences in the three countries' culture will be researched through the genre painting in the 19th century when the western influence had not been on. These days it is hard to indicate the similarities and differences of the three countries because they have been influenced a lot by the spread western ideology and aesthetic sense through the internet.
Here I focused on the female painting, one of the three countries' genre paintings in the 19th century. Among potraits female painting is a painting that depicts the female appearance well as the object of enjoyment. female painting in Asia is characterized by expressing the female beauty and the female hair style and the manner of wearing clothes as a genre painting and historical painting.
Portrait, a painting of figure has come out first among Asian paintings. To draw a portrait, everyone should learn physiognomy first so that he could draw all the shape of bone, the color of the skin, and the inner mind as well. There are a genii painting (painting of a genii of Taoism), a female painting (painting of ladies), a sage painting (painting of Confucius and Mencius, a portrait (of a figure in half length or full length), a Buddhist painting and a male painting. However, it is hard to compare a genii painting, a sage painting and a Buddhist painting in the three countries and analyze them due to their stylization and characterization. A male painting and a female painting are also a little bit biased to figure out the ideology and the sense of beauty of the day. Therefore I tried to figure out the similarities and differences of the three countries, Korea, China, and Japan with female painting, one of the genre paintings that express the sense of beauty among the common people.
The differences of the three countries in brief are as follows: First, in Korea there had scarcely been a female painting under the Confucianism during the Joseon period. Only the late Joseon period, female painting had come out as one of genre paintings, even though there were not so many, with them we could recognize the sense of beauty of those days. In China, there had been a maid-of-honor of a maid who draws the customs of those days, and Tang Yan