Abba The Connaughton Chavez Fiber Art Sense Of The Times

Fiber art is venerable and traditional. However, among contemporary arts, fiber art breaks through the conception of traditional fiber art, struggles out of the conception that reduces materials to a subordinate state, and carves out a new mean to explore and create art.In the development of modern fiber art, Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930- ) acts as a vane. How does she find her own art language in the chase after fiber art and thus cast an important influence on it? Besides her era background and experience, the trait of fiber and the artist' s creative work on the deconstruction of fiber construction are reasons of that as well. Out of the original fiber construction, Abakanowicz gives birth to another construction, which produces some unconventional texture different from the original fiber. Moreover, the artist extends the scope of apperception on fiber weaving to spatial category-"Weave" in the space! What a vigorous energy she inject into the modern fiber art!As a polish artist and because of her experience of World War II, in Abakanowicz' s mind, the hemp-fiber symbolizes self-curing function and the material of life. It cannot be more suitable to employ a kind of material like hemp-fiber to express the spirit of her works. In Abakanowicz' s art language context, endowed with spirit of human care and concern, fiber is already beyond the category of materials medium!The article is to track down Abakanowicz' s path of fiber art, make a record of her experiments in the touch between traditional materials and hands or heart, of the heart-moving fiber art works created by her, thereby illustrate the further possibility offered by modern fiber arts, and validate its importance among modern arts.