Differences and Influences between Contemporary Art and Traditional Art

China's traditional art heritage is extremely rich and brilliant. With thousands of years of accumulation, they are all great creations, the deep cultural heritage of an ancient civilization of 5,000 years. This is a valuable treasure of the Chinese nation and of all mankind. China's traditional art with its rich local flavor, simple artistic connotation and vivid historical traces, more and more by the world's people's love and appreciation, and become a human *** with the cultural "feast". What kind of connection exists between product design and traditional art: In a nutshell, tradition is the companion of culture, and it is the recognition of history to culture. With the integration of the softball economy, the world's cultural convergence, collision, fusion, so that the contemporary cultural products present a colorful, colorful and prosperous scene. Traditional art and ancient life together, harmony, and these, it is China's contemporary product design is lacking. For contemporary product design, the technological progress brought about by the innovation of technical means, all play a huge role in promoting the development of product design. However, the aesthetics of the traditional art of each nation also has a great influence on the development of their own design.

Chinese traditional art should be a kind of Chinese culture and oriental lifestyle based on, and adapt to the direction of China's economic development trends in softball products overall image, digging the essence of Chinese culture, and in line with the world's economic and technological development of fashionable aesthetic design trends, to establish a system and environment suitable for the creation and maintenance of such an image and design. It is the key to shape our traditional art style products. Of course, the application of traditional art in product design should be built on the basis of traditional Chinese culture, can not be separated from the support of culture, the kind of symbolization and surface Chinese elements can not fully express the deep heritage of traditional culture, may not be able to bring the product the real "soul". After all, these elements should not only be reflected in the appearance of the product, the entire production, manufacturing, consumption and the use of the experience of the process should feel the presence of Chinese culture. "Only when people have a deep understanding, the design can be established". There are meanings that should be y hidden within the product, giving the audience a space where they can imagine and experience.

Traditional Chinese art aesthetics for product design refers to ideas, opinions, behavior patterns, values and various abstract things. The traditional art of each nation has always been the topic of attention in the design world, which originates from the inseparable link between culture and design. Design is the process of embodying the spirit into the product, which converts the idea into entity and changes people's lifestyle through the product, and the lifestyle is the carrier of culture. All the material and spiritual aspects of culture are ultimately reflected in people's lifestyles. "Actuality is not a skill, but the sensory ability and insight to capture the essence of things." That's why design is creating a new way of life for people, which is actually creating a new culture. Chinese people have a psychological tendency to be the simplest, the most regular and the most balanced, so our design can be expressed by the simplest appearance. This design must be natural and unadorned, visually simple, technically delicate and culturally rich. Good design in appearance requires that products for different consumer groups should have their unique characteristics, in the design of a single product should be simple and beautiful, and in the design of a series of products to seek continuity in change. However, the process of "simple design" is complex and full of wisdom in the design process. Designers need to pay a lot of mental labor, "can not give in to any temptation, must resist a lot of things," in order to design simple, practical, fashionable products.

Good design has always emphasized the practical function of products, requiring designers to envision what people and society need from a reliable perspective, and to look for more new functional issues and create more practical and valuable products to serve people better after fully considering the position of consumers and the environment with the share of a consumer-cum-designer. This requires product designers should be in daily life, careful observation, experience, looking for deficiencies, questions, problem solving, and ultimately make the product full of wisdom and human nature, so that consumers can use the product in a healthy way, to achieve the harmony and unity of the product and the person.

The influence of traditional art on product design, in fact, plays a subtle role everywhere. Chinese painting, for example, the historical origins of Chinese painting can be traced back to ancient times, Chinese painting does contain five thousand years of Chinese culture, outlook on life, philosophical outlook, whether realistic, or writing makes generations of excellence, but these as works of art, as if there are many valuable cultural ideas just deep in museums, the majority of the public did not have good access to these arts, there is also a very important place is There is no good use of the art of Chinese painting in the commercial aspect, which is still the combination of traditional culture and commercial aspects of the problem, learning Chinese painting is to paint Chinese painting this kind of thinking can not be used as our modern learning art people's thinking, we have to think more about how to make him flourish. These actual conditions make us worry, because the country in modern design has a part of the traditional culture has been completely abandoned, not just diluted the traditional culture.

On the contrary, the Japanese are absorbing the essence of traditional Chinese culture, Japanese comics in the budding period of China's comic development in the gap between the development of the development of comics, and quickly occupied our comics market, so that our domestic comics were forgotten in the corner, China's comics market is basically Japanese comics occupied, comics to bring the direct economic benefits will be very large. By the comic brought by the middle and lower reaches of the industry chain derived from the related products, these are not only our loss in art and culture, but also economic loss. Japan's original painting art is relatively backward compared to China, can be developed to this extent on the basis of blank, their cartoon expression is still worth our study, their cartoon techniques can be applied to many aspects of our contemporary design, such as architectural design hand-drawn rendering performance, of course, there are also the performance of the industrial product rendering, the techniques of our national painting is worthwhile for us to do the design of people to come! The techniques of Chinese painting are worthy of our designers' study, so that they can be applied to the expression of contemporary design. Some works also combine traditional cultural things with the new things of modern design. Looking back at our Chinese painting art, its potential is quite valuable to develop. In fact, the combination of traditional art and contemporary design combines traditional culture and modern design organically will create better results.

Product design has distinctive characteristics of the times, which reflects different people's ideology, material living standards and production methods. For the target market customer needs, give full consideration to the audience's aesthetics, cultural practices, lifestyle, material conditions and other factors, through the integration of design and traditional art aesthetics, to create a product of their own cultural taste. "Call for cultural self-awareness. We hope that we can devote ourselves to the scientific reflection of our Chinese society and culture, and use the attitude of positivism and the spirit of seeking truth from facts to recognize our Chinese society and culture with a long history". Thus, the product design method which contains traditional culture can be accepted by designers and ordinary consumers, of course, it also needs our efforts in many aspects***. Although the design itself is constantly evolving, but in the new technology and awareness of the impact of concepts will continue to update the development, but the connotation and spirit of the history of the long-term accumulation of results.

Contemporary product design, the essence of traditional Chinese art aesthetics fused into the Western modern design concepts, at the same time, this fusion is not a simple additive, but on the basis of a deep understanding of traditional Chinese art fusion. It can be said that it is a good way to realize the perfect combination of Chinese traditional culture and modern design, as Japanese design theorist Ochi Ho, Saguchi Shichiro once said, "The inheritance and development of all good traditions is not to be dissolved in antiquity, but rather to inherit the idea of preserving the creator as the spirit of traditions, i.e., to create. Reflects the unique aesthetic connotation of Chinese culture, simple and clear, concise and easy to understand, in the contemporary product design has a strong visual impact without falling into the cliché, has been widely recognized.

For new design elements, we have to be well grasped. And traditional art in modern design is well used, have to say is a very good thing, we can find design inspiration from traditional art, and even derived from the new design elements, which makes our Chinese traditional art in the new period of time to get a good use, but also makes our traditional culture to get a good inheritance, but also makes our product designers design thinking more active. These are from the application and influence of traditional art on contemporary design, as well as the influence of people's design thinking, as a designer, how to understand the traditional art and contemporary design, how to apply the influence of traditional art on contemporary design, these are the problems we have to think about.