건축물 미술 장식품의 예술적 가치에 대한 분석 -서울과 수도권 중심으로-

Abstract

Art works for buildings are promoted by cultural policy, principally to renew the urban spaces and strengthen the city's identity. In Seoul, we count for 3,474 art works installed as art works for buildings. The creation, maintaining and preservation of such amount of installations present already quite an issue. At the same time, these art decorations seem to have little success within customers. In the present paper, we will first try to understand what is the notion of urban space and how it has been evolved. Then we will analyze the issue of interpreting and understanding the art decorations in a cultural and artistic point of view. Our main objective is to build a theoretical structure to understand the art decoration within cities in an artistic and humanities perspective, and for discussion. In a general way, art presents subjective values that goes beyond a simple judgment such as the appreciation of being creative or beautiful. However, "art decoration for buildings" present some characteristics that naturally spur more discussions. It indeed presents a mutual relation between the urban space, the buildings, and the living environment, and the expectation that comes with it such as the need for a clean environment or a cultural fulfillment. Within this context, the public role of art works continues to be expanded, politically, economically and culturally. It is increasingly admitted that art decorations role is not limited to a visual art but they are rather political, economical, and socio-cultural products that satisfy the need for cultural nostalgia and cultural sharing of the mass. However, we note that many installation works present contestable artistic issues. Art decoration installed for an urban area means that the personal emotion, secrecy and intimacy are exposed to the public and becomes public. Therefore, from an art work which is initiated from a private order, the artist should evolve toward a public one, releasing the subjectivity. The artist, which is the person who actually creates the installation, has to realize his public responsibility of communicating the artistic emotion. Beyond the personal relationship with the artist itself, his artistic sensibility is being evaluated by the inhabitants of the area, both spectators and users.