화훼의 상징적 알레고리를 통한 꽃말에 관한 연구 = A Study of Floral Languages of Flowers of Ornamental Plants through Symbolic Allegory

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to research into ``floral language``, a symbol that a flower and a plant imply. The ``floral language`` is a non-verbal language, which functions as a means to communicate ideas and feelings to the other party in a metaphorical way. The Korean Floral Art is art of mental image which embodies soul of the artist by the medium of flowers and plants, and art of imago that expresses ideas and intentions of the artist. To express the art spirit, the inner world of the artist, is closely associated with imagination of the floral artist. Imagination can be said as the source of the art form. Imagination, a kind of mental activity, vitalizes creative activity inspired by any object, enlarges it, and allows extensive thinking. Thus, the symbolism of ``floral language`` is combined with imagination of the floral artists, and puts their inner world into it, and becomes a major factor in the creative activity of the Korean floral art. The floral language may extend the domains to create floral art and understand flowers and ornamental plants. Where some floral art works are focusing on exterior forms, the floral languages will complement to the exterior forms with their contents (meanings). In addition, it seems a significant task to make a discussion about the floral languages in the context of social, cultural communication, delivering complicated and diverse feelings of human beings, in a similar way of verbal language. Furthermore, it can extend the thinking of the creators in the process of creating the Korean floral art, having influences upon expression of truth of the world of spirit. Appreciating ``floral languages`` may open up possibilities to a wide variety of cultural contents, and further contribute to spreading pop culture of floral art.