Preamble
On this blog spot there are posts that center on my “Wearable Art” (e.g. scarves, digital or analogue created fabric lengths etc.) For your convenience I have listed these posts below.
A Selection of My Scarves
Leaves Transformed: A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
My New Silk Rayon Velvet Scarves@Purple Noon Art And Sculpture Gallery
My Fabric Lengths@QSDS
My Fabric Collection:"Oh, Oh Marilyn and Mona!"@Spoonflower
2013 Australian Craft Awards – Finalist
My Scarves@2014 Scarf Festival: "Urban Artscape" Pashminas
My New Scarves and Fabric Lengths
New Range of Silk Neckties - Karma and Akash
AIVA: My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
New Colorways For My 'Cultural Graffiti' Fabrics
Byzantine Glow: A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
Wall Flower: A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
Ink Fern - A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
Celebratory Fireworks
My New Silk ArtCloth Scarves
New ‘Unique State’ Silk ArtCloth Scarves
UBIRR - My New Hand Dyed & Printed Fabric Design
Renaissance Man - My New Hand Dyed & Printed Fabric Design
Banksia - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Ginkgo Love - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Garden Delights I & II - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Wallflower III - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Rainforest Beauty - Collection My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Spring & Autumn Flurry Collection - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
La Volute Collection - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Urban Butterfly - My New Hand Printed Fabric Design
Acanthus Dream - My New Hand Printed Fabric Design
“Cascading Acanthus” - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed 'Rainforest Beauty' Pashmina Wraps Collection
My ArtCloth Tea Towels: A New Collection of Digitally Designed Products
Through the Land it Roared . . . ArtCloth Shawl
My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed ‘Urban Codes - Series 1’ Collection
Urban Moonlight - My Post Graffiti Doily
My New Hand Printed Fabric Design - "Morocco" ArtCloth
‘Vine Glow’
“Bush Banksia’s” Collection"
Releasing My New - ‘Unique State’ ArtCloth Scarves
‘LRSP’ A New Collection of Digitally Designed ArtCloth Textiles
If you like any of my artworks in the above links, please email me at - Marie-Therese - for pricing and for any other enquiries.
Introduction - Symbolism of Colors in Moroccan Culture
Colors have always had an eminent position in history; their symbolism can dramatically vary between cultures. Furthermore, colors have a deep psychological dimension as their choice can vividly reflect one’s psychology and personality. Moroccan decorative art is characterized by the prominent use of six colors: White, Black, Blue, Green, Red and Yellow. The symbolism of colors in the Moroccan culture is greatly derived from Islam.
White is associated with wisdom, honor, dignity, purity and creative thinking; Sufi followers consider white as an inner light and describe it as the light of divine secrets. Moroccans wear white clothes in their joyful and sorrowful ceremonies, and in so doing, apply the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammed who addresses Muslims saying: 'Wear white clothes, ask the living to wear white and shroud the dead in them; they are the best clothes.' On the other hand, black is sometimes related to unclean and satanic things.In fact, there are still some Moroccan families that refuse to wear black clothing or use it in furniture and decorating. Green is associated with nature and fertility. It also symbolizes prosperity, which explains the Moroccan tradition of sewing a green cover for the shrines of saints to seek their blessings. Blue is associated with the absolute and the infinite. It also embodies tranquility and peace of mind. Red is associated with exorcising evil spirits and yellow symbolizes the wilting of objects as they near their end. Click on the following link - Colors in the Moroccan Culture.
Symmetry and Repetition in Design
People often have a visual preference for symmetry and repetition. They are frequently attracted to geometric forms and patterns. We find it inherently fascinating and reassuring about seeing a shape or an image repeated in a formal sequence. Artists understand this human attribute and frequently use pattern and design methodologies for both structural and decorative purposes.
For artists painting Islamic tiles, geometry is the key to achieving the perfect tile. Some designs are made in a way that they strictly work for square tiles, whilst others may only work well on a honeycomb design. The main idea of Islamic tiles is to have each tile perfectly aligned with the next with not a single line or shape unequal to the rest. The complexity and simplicity of Islamic tiles differ greatly from one design to the next.
‘Morocco’ ArtCloth - Concept and Design Processes
My ArtCloth textile design, ‘Morocco’, is fundamentally based on shapes and forms found in Moroccan architecture and tile designs. The design intentionally features colors used in Moroccan symbolism. The piece is concerned with employing the design principles of balance, unity, proportion, color, and texture, as well as the ‘concept’ that underlies the work.
In the printed ArtCloth below, the white stamped images in the mid-ground contain 'arrows' that point to each other, which in turn visually create vertical and horizontal parallel lines. These lines enclose the white stencilled foreground 'flower' images, the blue Moroccan stamped mid-ground 'window' panels and the multi-colored, Moroccan background 'window' silhouettes in individual square panels.
The use of straight, vertical and horizontal lines employed in this piece encapsulates a highly formal, geometric and decorative aesthetic. A contemporary feature that has been integrated into the design elements is the deconstructed, mutli-colored, screenprinted background layer, which adds movement and textural qualities without affecting the balance, unity, colors, and proportions that underlie the design aesthetic and principles which have been employed.
Artist/Creator: Marie-Therese Wisniowski.
Title: ‘Morocco’ (full view).
Technique and Medium: Stamped, stencilled and deconstructed/improvisational silk screen prints employing transparent and opaque pigments on cotton.
Size: 50 cm (width) x 100 cm (length).
‘Morocco’ (close view).
‘Morocco’ (detail view).
On this blog spot there are posts that center on my “Wearable Art” (e.g. scarves, digital or analogue created fabric lengths etc.) For your convenience I have listed these posts below.
A Selection of My Scarves
Leaves Transformed: A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
My New Silk Rayon Velvet Scarves@Purple Noon Art And Sculpture Gallery
My Fabric Lengths@QSDS
My Fabric Collection:"Oh, Oh Marilyn and Mona!"@Spoonflower
2013 Australian Craft Awards – Finalist
My Scarves@2014 Scarf Festival: "Urban Artscape" Pashminas
My New Scarves and Fabric Lengths
New Range of Silk Neckties - Karma and Akash
AIVA: My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
New Colorways For My 'Cultural Graffiti' Fabrics
Byzantine Glow: A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
Wall Flower: A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
Ink Fern - A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
Celebratory Fireworks
My New Silk ArtCloth Scarves
New ‘Unique State’ Silk ArtCloth Scarves
UBIRR - My New Hand Dyed & Printed Fabric Design
Renaissance Man - My New Hand Dyed & Printed Fabric Design
Banksia - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Ginkgo Love - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Garden Delights I & II - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Wallflower III - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Rainforest Beauty - Collection My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Spring & Autumn Flurry Collection - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
La Volute Collection - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Urban Butterfly - My New Hand Printed Fabric Design
Acanthus Dream - My New Hand Printed Fabric Design
“Cascading Acanthus” - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed 'Rainforest Beauty' Pashmina Wraps Collection
My ArtCloth Tea Towels: A New Collection of Digitally Designed Products
Through the Land it Roared . . . ArtCloth Shawl
My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed ‘Urban Codes - Series 1’ Collection
Urban Moonlight - My Post Graffiti Doily
My New Hand Printed Fabric Design - "Morocco" ArtCloth
‘Vine Glow’
“Bush Banksia’s” Collection"
Releasing My New - ‘Unique State’ ArtCloth Scarves
‘LRSP’ A New Collection of Digitally Designed ArtCloth Textiles
If you like any of my artworks in the above links, please email me at - Marie-Therese - for pricing and for any other enquiries.
Introduction - Symbolism of Colors in Moroccan Culture
Colors have always had an eminent position in history; their symbolism can dramatically vary between cultures. Furthermore, colors have a deep psychological dimension as their choice can vividly reflect one’s psychology and personality. Moroccan decorative art is characterized by the prominent use of six colors: White, Black, Blue, Green, Red and Yellow. The symbolism of colors in the Moroccan culture is greatly derived from Islam.
White is associated with wisdom, honor, dignity, purity and creative thinking; Sufi followers consider white as an inner light and describe it as the light of divine secrets. Moroccans wear white clothes in their joyful and sorrowful ceremonies, and in so doing, apply the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammed who addresses Muslims saying: 'Wear white clothes, ask the living to wear white and shroud the dead in them; they are the best clothes.' On the other hand, black is sometimes related to unclean and satanic things.In fact, there are still some Moroccan families that refuse to wear black clothing or use it in furniture and decorating. Green is associated with nature and fertility. It also symbolizes prosperity, which explains the Moroccan tradition of sewing a green cover for the shrines of saints to seek their blessings. Blue is associated with the absolute and the infinite. It also embodies tranquility and peace of mind. Red is associated with exorcising evil spirits and yellow symbolizes the wilting of objects as they near their end. Click on the following link - Colors in the Moroccan Culture.
Symmetry and Repetition in Design
People often have a visual preference for symmetry and repetition. They are frequently attracted to geometric forms and patterns. We find it inherently fascinating and reassuring about seeing a shape or an image repeated in a formal sequence. Artists understand this human attribute and frequently use pattern and design methodologies for both structural and decorative purposes.
For artists painting Islamic tiles, geometry is the key to achieving the perfect tile. Some designs are made in a way that they strictly work for square tiles, whilst others may only work well on a honeycomb design. The main idea of Islamic tiles is to have each tile perfectly aligned with the next with not a single line or shape unequal to the rest. The complexity and simplicity of Islamic tiles differ greatly from one design to the next.
‘Morocco’ ArtCloth - Concept and Design Processes
My ArtCloth textile design, ‘Morocco’, is fundamentally based on shapes and forms found in Moroccan architecture and tile designs. The design intentionally features colors used in Moroccan symbolism. The piece is concerned with employing the design principles of balance, unity, proportion, color, and texture, as well as the ‘concept’ that underlies the work.
In the printed ArtCloth below, the white stamped images in the mid-ground contain 'arrows' that point to each other, which in turn visually create vertical and horizontal parallel lines. These lines enclose the white stencilled foreground 'flower' images, the blue Moroccan stamped mid-ground 'window' panels and the multi-colored, Moroccan background 'window' silhouettes in individual square panels.
The use of straight, vertical and horizontal lines employed in this piece encapsulates a highly formal, geometric and decorative aesthetic. A contemporary feature that has been integrated into the design elements is the deconstructed, mutli-colored, screenprinted background layer, which adds movement and textural qualities without affecting the balance, unity, colors, and proportions that underlie the design aesthetic and principles which have been employed.
Title: ‘Morocco’ (full view).
Technique and Medium: Stamped, stencilled and deconstructed/improvisational silk screen prints employing transparent and opaque pigments on cotton.
Size: 50 cm (width) x 100 cm (length).
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