A Study of Fashion Art Illustration

Abstract

The advent of the information age, advancement of the multi-media, and proliferation of internet areall ushering-in a new era of a cyber world. The artistic expression is unfolding into a new genre of a newera.. In the modern art, the boundary between the fine art and the applied art is becoming blurred, andfurther, distinction of fine art from popular art is also becoming meaningless. The advancement ofscience and technology, by offering new materials and visual forms, is contributing to the expansion ofthe morden arts horizon. As fashion illustration is gaining recognition as a form of art which mirrorstodays realities, it has also become increasingly necessary to add variety and newness. Fashionillustration is thus becoming the visual language of the modern world, capable of conveying artisticemotion, and at the same time able to effectively communicate the image of fashion to the masses.The increasing awareness of artistic talent and ingenuity as essential components of fashion illustrationis yielding greater fusion between fashion illustration and art &technology. This has resulted in the use ofthe advanced computer technology as a tool for crafting artistic expressions, such as fashion illustration,and this new tool has opened-up new possibilities for expressing images and colors. Further, thecomputer-aided fashion illustration is emerging as a new technique for expression.The concept of fashion illustration, history of fashion illustration from its incepton to modern date isreviewed and the simplicity has been researched throughout past studies published in Korean andoverseas Journals.