Decorative formations and their aesthetic applications in contemporary women's textile designs (Abbasid motifs as a model)

Abstract

Research Summary:

The Muslim artist turned to interest in the art of decorative design, as it is related to the attempt to find alternatives for expression away from photography, which many artists have been avoiding due to the difference in opinions regarding its legitimacy. Therefore, the Muslim artist turned to other means of expression, especially in the field of decorative art, which is considered a human art like that. Like the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, that is, it has a spatial structure that we can perceive through the sense of sight and sometimes touch, but it differs from other plastic arts in terms of its intellectual system. For example, in the case of painting or sculpture, nature is a medium for expressing the artistic vision, by addressing the senses and emotions. directly, while abstract shapes become the means of expression in decorative design in general and the design of contemporary women's fabrics in particular, based on the foregoing, the research came out with the following question:

What are the decorative formations and their aesthetic applications in contemporary women's textile designs (Abbasid motifs as a model)?

The current research aims to identify decorative formations and their aesthetic applications in contemporary women's textile designs (Abbasid motifs as a model).

The researcher followed the analytical descriptive approach as it is the closest to reaching the desired goal of the research, as the research community consists of models and samples of decorative units in the designs of women's fabrics in the Abbasid era and how they are employed in modern clothing fabrics, and it was (10) models.

The researcher intentionally selected (2) samples, some of which are repeated, some of which were severely damaged, and others that were 20% omitted from the decorative elements.

The research came out with a set of results, the most important of which are:

1- It is clear from the general description of the design models that the general shape of the costume was achieved from one piece, while pluralism was used in building the general shape.

Keywords: formation – decoration