조선시대 담장(淡粧)의 미적 특성에 관한 연구

A study of Esthetic Characteristics of Damjang During the Chosun Dydasty

DAMJANG escaped from human body's exaggeration and exessive ornoment instead of stressing natural beauty. DAMJANG that pursues sensibility and purity has something in common with the esthetic characteristics of Chosun Dynasty traditional cosmetic. Rooting from the traditional idea of the sameness of the spirit and the body, spotless white complexion was highly valued, and it was considered as paramount factor of the beauty, this notion of beauty was reflected in women's daily lives as keeping their face and body neat and clean. This is what we traditionally call 'DAMJANG'(a dressing up of face and body), the very makeup in the traditional sens. The beauty of Chosun Dynasty women was focused to the face type, which was more spherical than accidental, and added various conditions as the following : white skin, galic nose and lips red as a cherry, black eyebrow, red cheek. Especially make up for eyebrow was more important than any other part because it creates a totally new shape. We need to get out of the fixed idea about :old fashion" with recreating Korean peculiar traditional mode in modern cosmetic, rediscovering the beauty of cosmetic and the development of inventive modern cosmetic desing and its possibility through taking a triangular position on Korean cosmetic's peculiarity with modern sens based on the similarity between DAMJANG's characters and that of Chosun Dynasty informativeness.