Studies On The Contemporary Suzhou Embroidery Art

Suzhou Embroidery has a long history. It started with people’s decoration of the body.It was a process from painting to tattoo the body, and then to draw clothing, untilembroidered clothing. The development of Suzhou Embroidery art has been changingconstantly. That "people wore in embroidered clothing and fur" was described in"Shuoyuan" in Han dynasty, and after that Painted Embroidery was prevailed in the Songdynasty, then the golden age of the Boudoir Embroidery came in Ming dynasty, and thenSimulation Embroidery was created in Qing dynasty. Eventually under the long-terminfluence of the culture of Wu, generations of Suzhou Embroidery artists with great talentsto explore continuously and the subtle influence of poets and literary men, SuzhouEmbroidery has formed an artistic style of "exquisite, fine, elegant and pure" and becomesthe best of Four Major Forms of Chinese Embroidery.This paper mainly talks about the contemporary Suzhou Embroidery art using themethods of consult the relevant documents，information collection，field research, etc.The writer has widely collected a large amount of material of Suzhou Embroidery history,Wu culture, traditional arts and crafts development, contemporary works and inheritance ofSuzhou Embroidery, fashion design, etc. By reviewing the main stages of SuzhouEmbroidery art development and analyzing its artistic features, its role and functionorientation can be searched in its state of marketing, and then we can find the living spaceand application space of contemporary Suzhou Embroidery art in the social developmentand process of culture change.Through this study, we found that Suzhou Embroidery art was not only the goods withcommercial properties, but also the cultural and artistic product endowed with spiritualattributes. The special identity decided that it essentially has the practical and culturalartistic characteristics. This paper puts forward that its artistic orientation should also payattention to the two aspects above, and Suzhou Embroidery art should be based on thecontemporary people’s daily life and adapt to the new demand while the moderntransformation constantly. This paper defines the scale and ways of the contemporary Suzhou Embroidery art innovation. When it comes to innovation, we should stick to thebasic premise of the cultural features,"manual" attribute and artistic style of SuzhouEmbroidery art and clear the specific direction of contemporary Suzhou Embroidery art’sapplication from the aspects of theme, craft, material, art form and so on. This paper alsoreorganizes and analyzes the development and innovation features of Suzhou Embroideryin the state of marketing, and made the detailed analysis on the specific characteristics andthe design methods of contemporary Suzhou Embroidery art in art, fashion, cultural andcreative industry. The result of this study will provide some tips for the development ofSuzhou Embroidery art and other excellent traditional arts and crafts.