Motif of Ornament is divided into two styles. One of the styles is the naturalistic ornament, Composed of animal subjects, plants and flowers, and human figures and geme subjects. The other, the style of the geometrical ornament, is composed of strigh...
Motif of Ornament is divided into two styles. One of the styles is the naturalistic ornament, Composed of animal subjects, plants and flowers, and human figures and geme subjects. The other, the style of the geometrical ornament, is composed of stright lines, curves, dots and etc. Chosun geometrical ornaments, for example, are "stripe", "checker", "petalwave". The naturalistic ornament can not be explained by the theory of imitation, and it implies the emotional, allegorical, symbolic and literary subjects. The geometrical ornament, at Alois Riegl stated, should not be explained by the theory of technology. It is laid in nature.
Pottery ornament is the creation of human will, therefore the naturalistic ornament is beginging to lose the shape of nature, and the geometrical ornament is beginging to change from the geometrical abstraction to something origamized and living.