Traditional Cotton Prints Artistic Features And Application Research

Traditional cotton prints are both memories and necessities of many old people in China. Cotton prints not only have long history with its special craftsmanship, but also have unique modeling mixed with aesthetic appreciation. Therefore, lots of people are fascinated with them and regard them precious treasures. Nowadays, people’s living style and ways of aesthetic appreciation have changed a lot with mushroomed alien cultures. As a result, traditional cotton prints were gradually forgotten. It is an unavoidable issue to young people as to how to reserve their unique fabric charms as traditional cultures. Luckily, with the help of many artists’ attention to this aesthetic culture, another great fervor came along. Cotton prints’ modeling and color are appreciated by many artists and they can be seen in many successful graphic designs. This shows that countrymen were awaken by traditional Chinese values.This article explained traditional cotton prints’ history and actual state. It displayed the pattern matter and organization structure to clarify their artistic characteristic elements and focused on the pattern’s modeling and color characteristics with their meanings’ display to fully analyze cotton prints’ art features. Besides, the article gave an investigation to how to apply the cotton prints’ art into modern design in case that it can conform to modern aesthetic appreciation and living requirement and make this precious national culture retained and developed better.