그리스스타일의 미적 특성

Abstract

This study examined the aesthetic characteristics of Grecian style which is being considered as the rep-resentative classic of Western fashion and the transformations of those Grecian styles on the fashion of the twentieth cen-tury. This study used positive research method using literatures on art history and clothing history, fashion relatedas follows. The aesthetic characteristics of Grecian style was considered to be the ideal beauty combined with symmetry,the functional beauty combined with non-construction, and the sensual beauty combined with natural body. The idealbeauty combined with symmetry appears as a style that shows idealistic proportion of a body emphasizing high-waistbased on the golden ratio and the body as a whole rather than details. The functional beauty combined with non-con-struction appears as perfect recreation a body in its original and natural form. The clothing takes a form that does nothave any structural design and has simplified cutting and sewing. It uses pins and strings to fix up the form of clothingwhich is flexible and naturally draped. The sensual beauty combined with natural body is found in natural silhouette dresalluding naked body in connection with Rouseau' naturalism in neoclassic period. Throughout the twentieth century, thedesire for Grecian style was conveyed by a single detail or through an array of allusive effects.