Monday 22 July 2013

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Jewellery Necklace Chain  Biogarphy

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The exuberant spirit of the Roaring Twenties, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the Fauvist Artists and a wave of orientalism give to women emerged emancipated from the Great War a bright palette which find ideal expression in Art Deco jewellery.
A new generation of jewellers, influenced by artistic movements and artists like Fernand Léger or Sonia Delaunay is inspired by Cubism, Futurism and Russian Constructivism. The designs are architectural and distilled. Lines are geometrical. The parure is composed as if it were a sculpture.
Jewellers such as Janesich, Lacloche, Marchak and, of course Cartier united East with West and form with colour in a synthesis of pure art and lasting luxury, as the exotic cultures of Islam, Egypt and China in turn inspired their designs. Coloured gemstones carved in the Indian style as flowers and leaves, or calibré cut in exotic shapes to specifically fit their mounts, often with domed « buff tops » to contrast pavéset diamond grounds.
Gemset wristwatches and accessories provided a new avenue for jewellers to exploit: nécessaires de soirs, cigarette cases and powder compacts provided flat surfaces requiring decoration ; panels of inlaid hardstone, angular outlines drawn in rows of diamonds, or enamel on lacquer. Double-clip brooches became de rigueur and the new method of invisible setting perfected by Van Cleef & Arpels allowed pavements of stones to be mounted without interruption, the stones miraculously held edge-to-edge without claws, using a grid system hidden beneath the surface.
During the 1930s, the investigation of abstract forms led to the sublime perfection of white Art Deco, as the « functional » approach and angularities of the machine age crystallized into stark, sober statements or inflated size and scale. Abstract industrial shapes became increasingly massive and almost architectural in form as colour crept away from jewels to leave entirely white expanses of platinum, diamond and rock crystal.
 Yet within these heavy forms, sleek geometry gradually softened into more sculptural, three-dimensional shapes: rounded pleats, scrolls and spirals displayed the beginnings of volume and movements to complement the returning curves of feminity, as demonstrated by the designs of Suzanne Belperron and René Boivin.
Art Nouveau literally means new art, a complex and innovative European artistic and design style of the last two decades of the 1800s and the first decade of the 1900s. It found expression in a wide range of art forms - architecture, interior design, furniture, posters, glass, pottery, textiles, and book illustration - and was characterized by its devotion to curving and undulating lines, often referred to as whiplash curves. Art Nouveau formed the bridge between the 19th and the 20th century. The term Art Nouveau is derived from La Maison de l'Art Nouveau, a shop opened by the dealer Siegfried Bing in Paris in 1896.
One of the major influences of Art Nouveau was the Symbolist Movement1, which began in the 1880s. imagery adopted by this group combined religious mysticism with eroticism. Art Nouveau combined inspiration from this source with some of the elements of Arts and Crafts philosophy; it was also highly varied and asymmetrical which reflected the political unease of the period.  Art Nouveau, traces of which are discernible in the art of the Pre-Raphaelites and even in that of the  18th-century visionary poet William Blake, concentrated on the treatment of surface decoration.  It is also characterized by long curving lines based on sinuous plant forms, and an element of fantasy.  It was primarily a decorative style and as such was used particularly effectively in metalwork, jewelry, and glassware, and in book illustration, where the influence of Japanese prints is often evident.  Another ubiquitous presence is the femme fatale- the seductive nymph of Pre-Raphaelite paintin

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