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The Application Of Chinese Traditional Signs In The Creatures

Posted on:2010-08-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q L XiongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330338984870Subject:Art of Design
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With the development of the times,the connection between nations goes more closer, and inter-cultural dialogue and exchanges become more frequent and thoroughly. Despite this kind of exchange is beneficial to of human development, it will impact hardly on the national independence. "The National is also the global ", this sentence tells us that only by maintaining our national independence and the tradition, and the Chinese nation can survive forever in the world. Which reflected in the design is holding the Chinese nation's traditional culture firmly, and taking traditional signs as a bearing of the national style, and integrating it into modern designs.Sign amount to a mixture which contains a pair of signans and designatum. The signans means the concept and the designatum means the physical forms. Understanding of the structure of signs, we can analyze the meaning of traditional signs and their operating patterns in creating actions.To learn about the significance of traditional signs, we should analyze the formation of the traditional signs first. The ancients had no systematic theory of signs, but as the modern people, they have symbolic thinking mode. "Xiang comes from viewing the objects" is the earliest signs'thinking mode of human. The dualism of "Heaven and Earth" was abstracted as a world view of "yin and yang", and then from the "yin and yang" concept to the original imago, which is the initial signed process of the concept.Original imago as a sign is a connotation of the concept, but it also exists in the spiritual world. When it was combined with a variety of creation activities, there are all sorts of physical forms, which show as a formal sign exist in the original artifacts. This existed form includes the shapes, colors, materials, designs and other decoration of objects. We can define all these external forms that can reflect the variety of the traditional concept as the traditional symbols. By analyzing the mechanism that these signs reflect the values of traditional can help us to recognize the profound connections between the traditional concepts of the traditional signs more clearly. What can reflect the traditional thinking and concepts directly, and draw people's attention to the traditional memory as well as a sense of belonging to the nation, is the most attractive places of the traditional signs. When this kind of sign has been applied to modern design, the designer can not be divorced from the significance conveying of the traditional concepts, but only its classical form. This design is for the arts to do arts, for the traditions to refer to the traditions. These signs have only a form as a sign, and it is no longer called the traditional signs. Finally, this argumentation analyzes the conveying of traditional signs in the modern semantic system, and drives three ways of conveyance: the conveyance of the meaning of traditional culture, the conveyance of the symbolic and the conveyance of the metaphor.
Keywords/Search Tags:signans, designatum, traditional signs, imago, conveyance of meaning
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