Research On The Visual Design Based Upon The Taoist Providence Culture

Providence culture is a mental reflection of Chinese traditional culture,that is a cultural phenomenon created by human during the process of development in order to pursue the beauty and avoid the disaster.The development process of Providence culture is almost in line with the human civilization.In order to avoid natural disasters,disease,hunger and war,the simple survival protection idea was formed in the process of fighting with death from the day human came into being.When humans reached the basic living conditions,the new living demand and new providence culture appeared,such as pray fortune,happiness,safety and so on.Then it entered the stage of exploring the life and death,the potential of life and self transcendence to pursue long-term good health.Therefore,the Providence culture has permeated the whole human development period.This paper will see from the angle of the foundation of traditional culture — Confucianism,Buddhism,Taoism.From the perspective of aesthetic and cultural influence of the Three Doctrine,Taoism has a profound influence in the field of art.It is inheriting the thoughts of itself as a indigenous religion and integrated with the folk culture which provides the most basic research value for this paper.The influences on Japanese traditional art,life and design which produced by the development and integration of Zen Buddhism culture in Japan as well as its Japanization provide excellent lateral reference for this paper.Taoism has made a subtle influence on the people’s lives and already integrated with them for thousands of years.During this long process,Taoist Providence culture also influenced the explicit model and implicit model of traditional Chinese culture,which reflects by the carriers of literature symbol system,the specific behavior and values of human,ways of thinking and emotion.This paper explores the representation of the Taoist Providence culture,at the same time,it takes the Japanese Zen Buddhism and art design as the horizontal comparisons in order to explore the contemporary situation,significance and design research of Taoism Providence culture.Then it refines the color,pattern and material from the visual elements,and eventually takes the Gate-God picture which is the most integrated into the public life as the representative to do the visual design and research.Therefore,it has a strength that can see big things through small ones.In the process of information searching and the religious studying,it shows that the cultural elements of Taoist Providence are still takes a space in the heart of contemporary people.However,it is also facing the problems of visual aesthetic backwardness and not adapting to the contemporary living space during the process of modernization,and the problems is closely related to the cultural environment.Therefore,the real revival is to reintegrate into the people’s life in the exploration of its modernization.In that way,whether it is for the reason of the revival of the traditional Providence art,contemporary design of traditional Providence culture,or the development of Taoism tourism culture,it all has practical significance and feasibility.Twenty-first Century is the era of the world cultural integration,but also a period of cultural transformation all over the world.Only having a clear and profound understanding of their own culture and other culture can it make the multicultural fusion and form a set of basic order,then live together peacefully,play different roles and jointly developing.In this process,culture-based design can show a unique national cultural spirit and temperament among the same design methods.