THE REPETITIVE PHILOSOPHY OF ABSTRACTION IN NUBIAN FOLKLORE AND ITS ROLE IN ROOTING THE DESIGN IDENTITY

Abstract

Nubia occupied - and still - humans and a site, a special place, especially the visible Nubian cultural heritage. Nubia has a huge folk heritage that is characterized by diversity and richness in decorations and colors, as well as the multiplicity of performance methods and so the multiplicity of methods and patterns of repetition. Whereas the Nubian artist possessed a repetitive philosophy in which he dealt with his units that he dealt with abstractly and as the abstract trend in art is one of the important directions whereby the abstract artist avoids simulating the elements, representing physical objects and abandoning most of their details and raises aesthetic responses to the formative relationships among spaces, dimensions and colors due to its artistic components, and the Nubian folklore is one of the most important folk heritage that confirm our Egyptian identity, and it occupies its place especially in the ancient and modern life of Egypt and Egyptians. Folk art has its own value stemming from its sincerity and originality, as it is a tapestry of the people's conscience and is passed on to generations. There are many methods of reading folk art from the creative point, as it is an art that combines realism, symbolism and abstractness that constitute its intrinsic value, the fundamental value inherent in folk art is its rhythm and its abstraction, it is represented in organic abstraction, where the shape carries among its folds the pulse of life in the nature of abstract shapes regardless of any visual meaning and its changing rhythm by changing its repetition methods and repetitive philosophy, and geometric abstraction is that which is consistent with many beliefs and ideas in different civilizations, but in the Nubian heritage it carries harmonies, especially when combined with each other, as it is also distinguished by the repetition of units with the simplification of shapes and their abstraction in organized lines that make them give an infinite rhythm. The importance of the research lies in the development of designs for women’s fabrics with a new character that works to consolidate the identity and keeps pace with contemporary designs through the popular Nubian heritage, to develop innovative and renewed thinking in the field of textile printing in general and women’s fabrics in particular