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The purposes of this study include: (1) integrating Asian aesthetics and western fashion, forming a unique fabric deign encompassing multiple cultures and design languages, (2) re-thinking and investigating the design of needle punched felt based technique, with Asian culture elements, on fabric design, (3) investigating the painting style of the famous Chinese French painter, Wou-Ki Zao, and the application of his color concept into modern fabric design.
The research process was divided into four stages: (1) Studying the painting style of Wou-Ki Zao, identifying his most famous artworks, and analyzing the unique characters of his artworks. (2) Analyzing ancient felting technique, studying its applications on modern crafts and designs, and applying needle punched felting technique to create fabrics resembling oil-painting. (3) By employing the creation framework and processes, extracting key colors and then applying in modern fabric design, and (4) Examining this works of fabric design and discussing the opportunities in continuing the development in this fashion design.
The results show that (1) Master Zao made cross-cultural art and aesthetic easier to be understood and enable the West to understand and appreciate Asian art and painting. (2) Many concepts such as abstract and concrete, art and fashion, sense and sensibility, old and modern, east and west, appear to be opposite, but are complimentary. As Kandinsky, master of abstract painting, described the elements of painting: Painting is not unintentional but intimately related, and all phenomena have dual nature, external and internal. When applying needle punched felt technique on painting, abstract patterns of people, objects, locations, and things are created. The compositions were based on the simple elements of painting, color, lines and shapes. Although the painting seems to be abstract in appearance, but the expression is concrete at its core. (3) A series of abstract painting-like fabric designs were developed to demonstrate an inclusion of concrete and external, and abstract and internal in the same art works. The fabric designs are touchable and fashionable, but also full of invisible cross-cultural aestheticism. (4) These two-dimensional fabric works can be further used in the three-dimensional fashion design, expanding the applications of cross-cultural art design.
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Chiu, FT. (2020). Applications of Asian Abstract Imagery in Modern Fabric Design. In: Rau, PL. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. Applications in Health, Learning, Communication, and Creativity. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12193. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49913-6_39
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