Chinese pattern art began in the Xia Dynasty from simple to complex from the 19th century British architect's "Chinese Pattern Collection" to the online museum's "digital library" LV Louis Vuitton also came to China in the early days of its establishment to refer to the Baoxiang pattern pattern from the rigorous and meticulous to the modern AI restoration of a thousand years ago and the national self-confidence of the second innovation "national tide" has long been pervasive in every corner of life
Example of Chinese Ornament
Chinese porcelain antiques flowed into Europe, and British designers were amazed
"Collection of Chinese Patterns"
Born in London in 1809, Owen Jones was an architect, designer, avant-garde artist who began his journey in 1833 and travelled throughout Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Spain. One of the architects of the World Industrial Exposition in 1851. In 1852 he was appointed design director of the new Crystal Palace.
In His Collection of Chinese Patterns, Owen Jones selects a hundred ornaments sampled from the surfaces of Chinese porcelain and enamelware for inspiration.
Most of the drawings collected by Owen Jones are royal artifacts from the Qing Dynasty in the 18th and 19th centuries, and also during the burning of the Yuanmingyuan, a large number of Chinese cultural relics were included. The preface to his book: "Unprecedented" and "New Pattern." "Behind that kind of shock and admiration is the encounter of the royal art of the Qing Dynasty, and the pinnacle of Chinese decoration...
Qingyongzheng blue and white glaze red ruyizun (Nanjing Museum Qing Palace old collection)
Secondary innovation inspired by the picture on the left
Qingqianlong Yellow Ground Pastel Hundred Pattern Bowl (Nanjing Museum Qing Palace Old Collection)
Secondary innovation inspired by the picture
Qingqianlong pastel golden lotus cover bowl (Collection of the Forbidden City, Beijing)
❝ China's foreign wars and the Taiping Rebellion at that time led to the looting or destruction of many public buildings; rich decorative works of art flowed into Europe. These works are not only in the degree of craftsmanship, but also the perfect combination of color and decoration, which is very rare before.
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—Owen Jones
The classic book of the Late Nineteenth Century Pioneer Artist and Architect Owen Jones, Collected Chinese Patterns.
Before he was exposed to Chinese craftsmanship, Owen Jones was once dismissive of Chinese decorative arts, asserting that Chinese were incapable of dealing with traditional ornaments and patterns. When he saw the large number of decorative arts from China flowing into Europe, he realized that his comments on Chinese decorative arts were rash. Traditional patterns are now not only displayed and innovated in books, but a huge "online museum" has also begun to innovate digitally.
The Collection of Chinese Patterns Online Museum
Databases of traditional patterns are "ubiquitous" online
Yunnan Maguan Zhuang Ethnic Group (Dou Nong) Dragon Dance Cloud Pattern Pattern Part Number: ZZCX002 Ethnic Group: Zhuang Age: Modern Area: Maguan, Yunnan
Guangxi Nandan Zhuang patch embroidered quilt number: ZZCX005 Ethnic group: Zhuang Age: modern Area: Guangxi Nandan
Due to problems such as the limitations of craftsmanship and the difficulty of retaining traditional objects, many traditional patterns are disappearing. As the first and largest traditional pattern database in China, the production cycle of each pattern is digitally converted according to its complexity, and the pattern is not simply copied, but uses aesthetic theory to improve the color, shape and tension of the pattern, and retain the mutilated, blurry and chromatic patterns and create them for secondary creation. After the vectorized pattern is imported into the database, a traditional pattern is "preserved".
The Northern Wei mural tomb of the Datong City Museum has unearthed patterns
The pattern is printed on paper and the lines are adjusted
The thousand-year circulation of patterns is the preservation of the traditional culture of the passing away, and then the re-creation of the pattern digitization is a retrospective of history and an innovation of modern culture.
Huang Qingsui, founder of the "Chinese Classic Pattern Illustrated Book"
There are more than 200 kinds of classic patterns, all available here
From exquisite porcelain jade to brocade embroidery, its patterns and color matching are the inspiration for our creation. And these Chinese patterns are all exquisite, the pattern must be intentional, the meaning must be auspicious.
❝ Chinese pattern is not only a philosophical code, a cultural code, but also an aesthetic code, and the design code needs to be continuously inherited and carried forward.
—— "Chinese Classic Pattern Illustrated Book"
(Image from "Pattern Collection")
#宝相花
The Baoxiang pattern is a commonly used ornament in Buddhism, and it is also a reference pattern for the early days of louis Vuitton, an international first-line luxury goods. Baoxiang is the solemn image of the Buddha, and Baoxiang flower is a perfect and holy flower, extracting the shape of petals, buds and leaves from various flowers such as lotus flowers and peonies, and is fused through artistic processing.
#八达晕纹八达晕纹是一种结构八路相通, the picture is magnificent and full of rules and patterns. A combination of natural and geometric patterns, it is solemn and gorgeous. Later, the brocade that adopted the Bada halo pattern was called the Bada halo brocade and developed into one of the main varieties of Song brocade.
#蝙蝠纹编蝠的 "bat" is homophonous with the word "fu", with meanings such as "blessing descending from heaven" and "blessing to", and the chinese bat is regarded as a symbol of longevity.
#灯笼纹
Patterns such as bees, auspicious clouds, and flowers. "Lighting" is pronounced "Tim Ting", and the ancients analyzed the family Tim Ting to make money by decorating lanterns or lantern patterns.
#龟背纹龟背纹以六边形为单位, in the form of regular, seamless splicing to form a four-square continuous pattern. Because the turtle was regarded as a symbol of longevity in ancient China, the visual effect was more regular and was often used for cloth.
Honeysuckle pattern
Fu character pattern
Traditional Chinese patterns have been borrowed and referenced by foreign countries a hundred years ago, and now the "national tide" has revived these cultures again, and the design code will continue to be inherited and carried forward