Análisis iconográfico de la Cultura Tolita y su aplicación al Diseño Textil

Abstract

The research project is an analysis of the iconography of the Tolita Culture with the application to the textile design, the most representative icons were considered in a morphological and symbolic reinterpretation using Erwin Panofsky's methodology (pre iconography, iconography and iconology), through the system of laws of the bipartition and harmonic tripartition of the space of the process of Harmonic Layout of Zadir Milla was applied the segmentation of the icon to generate modules and create a composition complemented with the foundations of the design, to project a digital pattern and create the iconographic textile designs. In the feasibility of the proposal a textile catalog was made, in a range of textile genres for use in different costume universes, using finishes such as prints, embroidery, sublimated to the iconographic patterns, techniques that allow the designer to convey messages and meanings through the textile or the clothing. The present project is a contribution to fashion design with identity as a seed in generating a change of ideology in society, to encourage more designers to present works with the contributions that the patrimonial issues of the country offer, in a proposal to project designs with ancestral ethnic features and the fusion of tendencies, by producing a fashionable product according to the contemporary with the objective of attracting young people and adults to consume Ecuadorian design, in the diffusion of strengthening the roots of the ancestors and carrying designs that not only imply cover the body but they show meanings beyond what can be observed, with the future vision of expanding markets and reach international standards and mainly as a sample that Ecuador can produce and generate fashion.