My Favorite Period of Jewellery Design -Art Nouveau (1875-1919)
Background
- electricity and photography were nascent sciences
- innovative technologies were bursting upon an advancing Western world
- first fine art to be called "modern"
Movement
- the leaders: the critic John Ruskin and William Morris
- against: the encroaching modern age, the shoddy, machine-made products
- designs: interiors, architecture, furniture, books, metalwork, and jewelry
- style: romantic, not rigid, return to earlier, purer aesthetics and technique
- forms: stone-set pieces which including brooches, pendants, bracelets, necklace, hatpins, and rings
- material : polished stones, opal, lapis lazuli, and rose quartz were set into silver or gold
Reflection
I really like this period of design. Inspiration by flowers, plants, rattans, and birds in nature, the shape with the creations, such as furniture, and jewelry are very elegant. My favorite designer is Alphonse Musha; the style of his paintting are warm colours, graceful lines, and a lot of long curly hair settled in whole page.
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Have you been to the V&A (I'm sure you probably have) - one of my favourite museums for work of this nature.
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