The Analysis And Exercise On The Elements Of Chinese Traditional Decoration In Modern Environment Art Design

Content:The beginning of decoration can trace back to later period of the Old Stone Age. The ornament behavior is produced with the appearance of human being, and gradually develops into a relatively independent system with cultural characteristics of different regions according to different kinds. And the practical things playing a decorating role, namely ornament, become the dominant characteristic of different civilization. Chinese traditional decorating, which roots in the Chinese traditional context, has produced some unique decoration forms. It includes not only practical forms of traditional decoration, but also the decoration theory of traditional system. This essay takes a systemic analysis on the elements of Chinese traditional decoration. Compared to the elements of modern environment art, it attempts to seek the factors impelling the molding process of Chinese traditional decoration on the social cultural aspect, and points to the design work of modern environment art.The elements of Chinese traditional decoration includes the essence and the constitution of the ornamental forms of Chinese palace, temple, local-style dwelling houses and garden. They reflect the patriarchal system and the Confucian ethics theory under China's agro-farming culture. The elements of Chinese traditional decoration have extremely high aesthetical value, and there are many things worthy assimilating and using for the modern environment decoration.The post-modernism, which appeared in the mid 20th century, is a kind of culture phenomenon. It emerged when the western developed countries began to transform from modern industrial society to "post-modernism society" or "information society". This trend of thought emphasizes the history and regional of culture, which makes the environment art ornament language of post-modern context pay more attention to the harmonious unification of society, environment, era and human; to the unification of the function, structure and beauty; to the unification of technology and art; to the individual character and local characteristic.After entering the 1990s, a enormous transition took place in the global cultural pattern, globalization and two-way development of the localization have already become the basic trend of the world cultural development nowadays. The environmental art design, as a kind of culture, will inevitably present the phenomenon of coming back, just as other kinds of culture do. The nationalization and region have facilitated the returning trend of the environmental art design.In recent years, domestic environmental art design has developed swirt and violent, but few designs can gets real combination with the local future and pay attention to the region customs. In order to reflect culture, a lot of designs pile up some elements of traditional ornament blindly and simply. The designers don't lake deep consideration of the science and context, but they think they already know all. So their designs totally deviated from the Aesthetic tradition.When applying the elements of aditional ornament to the modern environmental artistic creation, we use the symbol way that is to simplify, distort and abstract them on the image; in the aspect of material, we use new material, techniques and feelings of the material to replace the old ones; in the aspect of space, by breaking it up and making it up again, we makes the already existing elements of traditional ornameni turn into a new vision symbol system, with some essential characteristics kept.The environmental art design is a comprehensive cross subject that has an extremely wide coverage. In the modern environmental design, only by grasping the humane characteristic and understanding the extend connotation of the elements of traditional ornament, can we create works which fit modern humane environment perfectly.