Pattern and Ornament: Reading - CAM Raleigh's ORNAMENT and PATTERN: by Susan Yelavich

This reading opened my knowledge behind ornament and design a lot wider. I had never thought about how a neurological, cultural or philosophical need could be what drives me towards ornament and pattern work. We humans use pattern and design to organize complexity that we deal with. We relate what we see and layer on what we know and create our own connective ornament in our minds. Culture plays a huge role in ornament and design, as well as technological advancements. Some movements have caused a negative view of the art of making ornaments, and some have revived them. There are 6 different aspects to approaching ornaments and pattern: Amplification, The Everyday, Kit-of-Parts, Elaboration, Inheritances, and Fantasy, which dictate different outcomes. Ornament can have a functional purpose, or can be used a a medium of narrative, to express imagination and more. There have bee different art-historical periods that have affected ornament and design like the modern and post modern period. I can't pin point what art-historical period we are in because we have them all. There is so much "coming back" continuously as "new". But mostly everything has been made and we haven't made anything in this period that I would say stands out as a recognizable piece form our time. We have architecture designed from all kinds of art movements and periods. So I wouldn't really say we are in any form of specific art-historical period. Turns out ornament and design are much more than what came up in my head when the word "ornament" was said.

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