Nowadays human inner emotional development is hindered by excessive technical education and materialism in our morden society. And the increasing tendency of thinking light of our old tradion has been creating the abnomal growth of culture. In these p...
Nowadays human inner emotional development is hindered by excessive technical education and materialism in our morden society. And the increasing tendency of thinking light of our old tradion has been creating the abnomal growth of culture. In these present condition, I have come to make this thesis in order to give a warning to these trend of this time.
This thesis is about a totem pole (Chang Seng) which was used as a milepost and tutelary god, which is one of the most typical folk works of art in Korea. My purpose in this thesis is to contribute to the emotional education by means of explaining the value of a totem pole in the point of art and, rerealizing traditional works of art.
To accomplish this purpose, I have investigated the characteristics of Korean art in the side of natural backgrounds and the topography and geology, and of beauty in the point of artless beauty.
As for a primal function, it had played the role of tutelary god. I have inquired many difficult name of stone posts by dint of investigating its figure and name.
For the article of concrete analysis about it, I have made an a nalysis by dividing it into 6 parts-such as the figure of head, that of eyes, that of mouth, a nose, a bread or moustache and ears.
As the Conclusion of this analysis I can summarize my research as follows
1) Korean totem poles (Chang Seng) are made of out of stone and wood. So we can have two names of them ; stone posts and wood posts. And stone posts are moremostly discovered in southern provinces than northern provinces.
2) These long totem poles show us the figures of simple and plain mind of people, And we cau realize these next nine article;
a) These are many long totem poles with hats on their head
b) Many stone posts have the large, protruding eyes which we can surely see in the face of exorcising demon
c) The nose is a snob nose.
d) The mouthes of them are mostly closed.
e) About moustache or beard, more than half of totem poles have it