Research on the color of Chinese landscape painting and its application in fashion design

Chinese landscape painting is a cultural form with distinctive artistic characteristics, and its use of color combines traditional Chinese philosophical thinking and aesthetic concepts, which can be applied to modern textile and apparel design to add new ideas to modern design. The painting 'A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains' (《千里江山图》) by Wang Ximeng, a court painter of the Song Dynasty (960–1279), not only represents the milestone of the development of green landscape, but also integrates the great achievements of ink landscape since the Northern Song Dynasty, which is one of the ten most famous heirloom paintings in China. However, there is a lack of research on the color of it and its application in clothing design. For this reason, this paper analyzes the color of the paintings under the perspective of history and culture as a research object, based on the relevant theories of fine arts, color science and design. Then, the improved k-means algorithm is used to efficiently extract the color pattern of 'A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains' and the color card of the painting, and at the same time, based on the color network model and the elements in the painting, the innovative design of clothing is practiced. Finally, fuzzy hierarchical analysis is utilized to complete the design evaluation of the costumes. The evaluation results show that the redesign of 'A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains' by using the clothing pattern as a carrier has received good feedback, which is conducive to stimulating the redesign vitality of traditional Chinese paintings, and helping to efficiently realize the cultural empowerment and translation of painting colors in textile.