Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explain the color image and component by analyzing the color images that appeared in Antonio Lopez’s works in the 1960s. To this end, the characteristics of Lopez’s 1960s fashion illustrations were analyzed through theoretical consideration. That is, the researcher selected 91 pieces of these illustrations and identified their colors. The team found that Lopez wanted the present a new image of a woman, not the typical fashion illustration that represented an upper-class woman. More specifically, Lopez wished to display an image from everyday life or youthful fashions that were popular at the time, expressing a bright, cheerful image of a woman. Additionally, Lopez’s method for representing women in everyday life employed a variety of types, such as soft-dynamic, soft-static, hard-dynamic, and hard-static images. As a component for expressing women of various images, Lopez used high chroma colors or pastels to express cheerful and cute images, abandoning brighter colors for achromatic hues to represent delicate, modern images of women. Beyond this, dynamic images appeared that possesses various component, such as mixes of achromatic and chromatic colors, complex and irregular curves, dynamic human poses, and fashion displaying abstract patterns. Therefore, these results highlight the importance of color for fashion students. Furthermore, these data could be used as a reference for the component according to the fashion illustration image.

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