Fashion And Art Are Historical Compliments
For those of us who love the finer things in life, high fashion and fine art tend to be two categories we can really appreciate. The visual arts sometimes tends to include fashion as a group, but regardless of the way you cut it, art and fashion have often criss crossed one another throughout history. Let’s see some of the examples of how they have each mimicked each other.
Some of the first images that we have from our early decendants highlight animals. Most are the cave paintings and likely not what we would generally say qualifies as fine art. Nevertheless, if you move ahead to the incredible paintings and statues of ancient Indian or Egyptian structures then you definitely can see fashion and art blending. These works of art depict the wealthy and those who wait on them in all of their finest clothing and jewelry. This turns out to be a tradition carried forth into Greek, Roman and Renaissance European cultures, too. Depicting those with power and wealth in their best dress not only showcased what they had, but it would work as a catalyst for spurring dreams of the lower class who were covetous to have the life of those they admired. Fashion has always followed the lead of those with much social status because it is, in the end, about permitting one’s self that kind of visual distinction.
If we fast forward to the end of the Second Millennium, we start to see both fine art and fashion getting more and more readily available to the general population. As technological advances made things easier to produce, more artists and garment makers arose. Dyes became less costly, complex fabrics began to be cranked out and in large quantity, trade allowed the opportunity for fabrics like silk to be accessible to the masses. As cultures rose up against each other and even merged, the partnering of art and fashion became even more entwined. Renowned paintings stimulated fashion designers and those who created the best products in the hat shop, shoe store and jewelry store – no area of fashion was unaffected.
Today, we see even stronger influences of art as it becomes more than just the fine art in galleries, but the costume designers inspired by the fine art from through out the world who work on wardrobe for motion pictures and tv or arrange the look of Hollywood’s A-listers. These days, we view diamond jewelry, designer label outfits and amazing Abstract Expressionist paintings as comparable luxuries, but if you compare the sheer numbers, a lot more of us can financially justify many of these embellishments today than in other eras.
As we’ve seen, fine art and fashion have been peas in a pod for countless years. Over time, they have influenced each other, constantly recycling the creative motivation of those that make both of these styles of visual art. The method has trickled down to today when virtually all of us can appreciate forms of artistic expression that would once have been only for the truly wealthy. This was piece was crafted by a writer working with Duncan & Boyd jewelers shops in austin tx, with great pride and homage to history.
Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Expressionism 1950s-New York School collage-painter
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