The Application And Reference Of Taoist Art Elements In Modern Jewelry Design

The society has become more civilization and modern, the more exoteric vogue that people is wild about, the easier to fade from their memory about the Chinese tradition culture, and the native-born Taoism in China has confronted the status quo. The historic reason is one of the facets, that is why the traditional Taoism culture has desalted, but the most important reason that people ignored the impersonal and veridical way to propaganda and introduce Taoism culture format and content. Because of the unique Taoism culture format and activity fashion, which are easy to be regarded as superstition and unique phenomenon. If we want to publicize the content and spirit of Taoism well and truly, we ought to take the modern media and new displaying way to spread abroad splendid Taoism civilization connotation and art modality for people around the world, which will be better way to propaganda, pass down and develop the Chinese tradition culture.These years, Taoism and Taoist folk workmanship had been arranged in the research-protection of intangible culture heritage by UNESCO. Taoism has almost 2.000years history in China, the religious ideology, immortal taste, the way to preserve people's health have been becoming more popular except Taoist arts which had been ranked in the superstition area with the decadency of traditional Taoism culture. Taoism is the soul of Chinese traditional culture, which holds two or more posts concurrently at the same time, which embodies the main idea of Chinese culture. The characters of Taoist arts show the art impress of Chinese traditional arts a certain extent. Though, the thought theory and art element of Taoist art play an important role in the modern design.And, the jewelry is symbolization of wealth, representative of vogue. The jewelry designers manage Taoist art elements skillfully into modern jewelry design, which caters for people's passion of open vogue, it is also the way to publicize Taoism culture, the new method to pass down and develop the intangible culture heritage, further more, the way to put the Taoism art elements into modern jewelry design that will break through the old thought in the jewelry design, which will design jewelry works that content the classical and modern style, and special folk works that blends moral and spirit.This dissertation aims to analyze the feature of brushwork painting, calligraphy, costume, sculpture and paper-cutting in the Taoist arts, in order to discuss the embodiment and application of Taoist art elements in modern jewelry design. The writer designed some new jewelry works with elements of Taoist art when she researched in the field, and manufactured some collections of religious and nationality jewelry, all of the works that mean to represent the Taoism culture through new art format.