Studio Art Meets Textiles
Movies, textiles, and other art mediums have looked to painting for inspiration. Compared to other art forms, visual art compositions have often been ahead in imagination.
Designers and movie producers allow master artists’ works to influence them in various ways. For one, they look for patterns in the underlying color scheme.
Indian movies and textiles initially emphasized, alongside white, primary colors red, blue, yellow and secondary colors green, purple, and orange as well as some more vibrant colors such as pink and turquoise.
Rimple and Harpreet Narula, designers for the movie “Padmaavat,” traveled across India, including trips to The Calico Museum of Textiles in Gujarat and museums in Jaipur. They studied the murals, frescoes, and wall paintings. What they saw informed their understanding of period costumes, clothes and culture of ancient India. In an Instagram post on the costumes worn by Rani Padmaavati, played by Deepika Padukone, Rimple and Harpreet Narula wrote, “The extensive use of colors in Rajput attire has connotations associated with culture, religion, and climate of the province with each color having a deep-rooted meaning that was used to convey emotions, seasons, customs, and ceremonial occasions.”
Fashion similarly applies innovations in fine art to designing apparel. Western clothing designers have long found inspiration in the works of master artists, including impressionists like Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh. Perhaps more than any other works of art, Monet’s Water Lilies series, for example, has had an immense impact on modern textile colors. These paintings have subtle color values that easily transfer to textiles. Also, inspired by the composition Red, Blue and Yellow, Yves Saint Laurent famously applied Piet Mondrian’s geometric patterns and color blocks to the design of a series of shift dresses in 1965.
Recently, Indian fashion designers have taken inspiration from master artists too. For example, the creations of the popular Indian designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee show the remarkable influence of paintings. He designs handcrafted bridal gowns inspired by the colorscapes of Monet as well as the Fauvist Henri Matisse and the 16th-century Dutch painter Pieter Brueghel.
Brinda Pamulapati, owner/managing director, of Venvi Art Gallery in Tallahassee, can be reached at (850) 322-0965 or visit www.VenviArtGallery.com
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Title: The Path among the Irises 1914-1917 Artist: Claude Monet |
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Artist: Claude Monet |
Artist: Van Gogh Credit: Erika Bretchel, VAN GOGH:Art in Fashion http://erikabrechtel.com/2011/12/28/van-gogh-art-in-fashion/ |
Painting Title: The Starry Nights Artist: Van Gogh
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Title: The Japanese Bridge,1923
Painting Title: Vase with 12 Sunflowers 
Ref: Bidsquare.com, Blending the Lines Between Fashion and Art: The Yves Saint Laurent Mondrian Dress