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Clowns have existed always in any nation or culture and keep our side safe in a variety of ways through long history of the world. They have been grown and adapted to the society of that time by experiencing vast change of their characters such as burlesque players from ancient Greece and Rome to the medieval wandering clowns and court jesters who were connected to playful characters of Commedia del arte. The clowns therefore have been increasingly evolved and improved professionally through circus, TV, movie and show stage.
Clown costumes have also varied from the ordinary outfits of the first stage to extraordinary and grotesque appearance later to represent good, evil, humorous farcical elements and even more to exaggerate their irrational and mysterious appearance of a monster. Clowns’ outlooks have been dramatically changed not only to increase the visibility with exaggerated size, strong colors and infantile details or objects but also to express folly of the power and absurdity of the society to be delved by implying cynical satire and expressing fun and satire at the same time.
The world of clowns increased the value of the clown art with their own unique costume and makeup with diversification of Whiteface, Auguste and Character clowns.
They shake their reputation as comedy program actors or hosts of a show as well as carnival, party, performance and circus. They appear with various types of specialized organization of the society even in psychotherapy and the field of medicine. In addition to the purpose of commercial profit, the development of a modern clown art and large-scale global entertainment additionally requires visual significance and values resulting from a fusion of cultures and ethnicities across the border of any regions.
As laughter is the best treatment, clowns' antics expose human folly utmost and rescue from despair of life. Clowns could also turn people’s painful lives joyful and may serve as a motivation to bring lubricants to their lives. Clowns create unique and haunting characters in popular culture with distorted and exaggerated laugh, and clear or unclear expression of human emotion. Moreover, they create these countenance through their diverse and ever-changing colors, and designs of costume and makeup. Exaggeration, sense of exceptionalism, infant friendliness, disharmony and contradictory discrepancy, evoked from the external characteristic elements of clown costume that represents symbolism, satire, amusingness and estrangement between ordinary audience and the laughter of the clown.
As long as human exists, clown character will always exist regardless of the form of a clown costume and design. Playful elements will basically exist and evolve in the area of exaggerated colors, decorations, bright stripes, dots, patterns, oversized ruffles, ribbon tie, flapping shoes and color wig. Perception of tradition should not force the advancement and development of both clowns and clown costumes in order to be tied into human bondage. On the other hand, abandoning the tradition is not also desirable by reason of opposing advancement. Change should be pursued from the application and the extension of tradition. Therefore, clown costume would be developed smoothly in a flow of the transition of aesthetic sense to become interesting, playful and bizarre with the expansion of pluralism and personalized aesthetics. From the results, clowns could constantly express and prosecute for aspects of our lives, and will represent the structure of consciousness of their belonging period and its society.
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