부산대학교 도서관

Power-law distribution exists in the world around us. The foretime research on power law distribution has been well-developed and complete widely used in the areas of physics, sociology, biology and finance. The public art is the most extensive form of contact between the public and art such as likes and dislikes in contact. Power-law distribution is the basic attribute of public art. Power-law distribution of public art means that the academic level of public art works is inversely proportional to the power index of the number of audiences. That is to say, the number of audiences of public artworks are easy to access can be understood by many. On the contrary the exploratory public art can only be discussed and studied by the professionals and insiders. This research is based on the study of the index relationship between the academic nature of public artworks and the number of audiences. There are four divisions of power-law distribution in public art: experimental public art (dominated by individuality), commercial public art (Individuality is greater than generality), mainstream public art (Generality is greater than individuality) and daily aesthetic public art (dominated by generality). The number increases exponentially in turn, and plays a role in their respective niches, and forms competition and evolution, promoting the development of public art. Based on the power-law distribution phenomenon in the field of mathematics, this paper divides public art into four types. It expounds the respective value orientation and attributes into four types of public art from the perspectives of politics, economics and daily aesthetics. Its research significance lies in systematically making sense of the important roles played by different types of public art in social development using the logic of mathematical model. This research method is different from the past public art research in the perspective of traditional art history. It not only focuses on the public art itself but also brings the aesthetic object (audience group) of public art into the research category. It points out the relationships between them. This study of public art provides new possibilities.