Thursday, 3 October 2013

Object design

Object design dating back to ancient times are the purest in its form of culture and ideology, expressing its traditions and origins from the culture of its creators. These artifacts often takes up the environment around them, mimicking nature. An example of this is ornaments dating back to the 18th century where ornaments ,furniture and jewellery are expressed and made with a more elegant nature, showing the height of its glory in that era. This suggests a form of complex simplicity. Then came the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, changing where man looked more in the direction of science, which affected products as they are mass produced to suit its basic purpose, rather than to promote culture and art. due to the Industrialization's destructive nature to the arts more and more people appreciated ancient artifacts. In movies the artifacts are often mimicked by reconstruction of substitude materials, to recreate its glory. However this can only be done to a certain extent as of course, it would never achieve the standard of the original. coming in to the modern era, people realized the only way to achieve the height of art and glory is to mimic the ancients. But at the same time with new ideals and styles of art coming into the picture,m people often only look at the present and its representation of the future in modern art, which has a representation of simple complexity, hiding its new ideals in the simplest form of art expressions. However the truth that this cannot escape is that with its complexity comes with the bedrock of simple ancient ideologies, just expressed in a different way, therefore uncanny resemblance would be found by the wary. I would often like to think that evolving times, passing eras and even trends are the vicious cycle and the repetition of old styles and ideologies, sometimes just put into a slightly different context.some modern artists would bring classic art and modern art, marry the two together and make a piece of art with it. creating contrast but at the same time showing some kind of resemblance. For those who wish to achieve reverence, would inevitable find themselves looking back to the ancients.



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