사회·문화적 의미의 상징 해석을 통한 바니타스 정물화 감상 교육 프로그램 개발 연구: 도상해석학을 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to examine iconology based on its methodological grounds in order to provide learners with art appreciation education so that they can improve ability to interpret the symbolic and internal meanings of visual images on their own and enhance ability to understand the sociocultural phenomena of that age by appreciating art works. The 2015 revised art curriculum is oriented to raising ‘ability to understand art culture’ through art appreciation education focusing on core competence. In this sense, education provided in a high school art class to understand symbolic meaning internalized in an art work of a certain era can be very meaningful in helping learners to understand ‘relationship between art and sociocultural backgrounds’. In fact, Vanitas’ still life, the subject adopted in this study, has been found to be educationally very effective in helping students understand the relationship and symbol of the sociocultural context that took place in the 17th-century Netherlands. According to the detailed results of examining the educational effects of the art appreciation program, first, students’ ability to interpret the symbolic meaning of visual images was improved, second, their ability to understand culture of a particular era with artworks was enhanced, and third, their aesthetic thinking ability was raised, too. In order to apply such programs more desirably in the field, there should be more self-expression class using symbolic icons. Also, to help them understand the background of a certain era more easily, convergent education integrating art with other subjects should be provided for even higher effects.