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The special exhibition 'Wearable Art: Inspiration in Thread'

The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum, Sookmyung Women's University2014-10-08/2014-12-31

 The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum

The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum
Seoul, South Korea

Such rituals included ‘the four ceremonial occasions of coming of ages, wedding, funeral, and ancestral rites’, and ‘rituals representing status and authority, respect, and solemnity’. However, today, these colours are used in art works applied byway of two colours with concise sense.
We can see the examples of this contrasting of black and white in ‘Kosode’ of Japan, and the modern art of Park Ju-hee. Impressive ‘Kosode’ of Japan showed a contrasting bisectional technique with harmonizing connection by using black and white fabrics attached together with soft line drawings of flower vines on it. Within this way of long-standing oriental tradition, the image of black and white with strong symbolism has recomposed in modern art works by Park Soo-Jin as clothes of courtesy in everyday life by adding concise composition to the harmony of contrasts.

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  • Title: The special exhibition 'Wearable Art: Inspiration in Thread'
  • Creator: The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum, Sookmyung Women's University
  • Date Created: 2014-10-08/2014-12-31
  • Location Created: Rep. of Korea, Seoul
  • Type: Textile art
  • Rights: The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum, Sookmyung Women's University
 The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum

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