Treatment or interpretation

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN AND APPLICATION
Lesson 7: Definition of Motifs, Pattern and Design

Treatment or interpretation

The ideas taken from the source must be presented or interpreted in some way. There are four common ways of motif interpretation or treatment:

Realistic treatment: Realistic interpretation emphasizes how natural and man made objects really appear. It treats the motif in the photographic manner. Colours, lines and other details are exactly copied from natural objects. Such type of pictorial presentations do not have much merit in textile designing because it involves very less use of imagination thus loses its aesthetic appeal very soon.

Stylized or conventionalized treatment: Conventionalization or stylization is variation of size, shape and tone and also in the use of principles of designs. It represents natural and manmade objects but they are either simplified or exaggerated in detail by distorting the shape, changing the colours and line details. This is called stylization of motif based on the creativity of the designer.

Abstract treatment: Abstract interpretation does not portray any object, natural or manmade, as such. They come out as free forms or simply interesting shapes or lines and convey different meaning to different people. So they hold the interest of the viewer for the long time.

Geometric treatment: Geometric treatment should be well planned and precise. But it should not show mathematical perfection otherwise the designs will look dull and boring. Instead it should be planned in such a way to portray interest and to decrease the rigidity associated with geometrical shapes. These shapes carry the psychological effects of their edges and base, for example curves suggest flow and movement, squares and rectangular shapes convey stability and formality.

Animation illustrates different ways of interpreting a leaf motif using different treatments.

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