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| [730] Marie Zimmermann - From Tiaras to Tombstones |
Imagine walking into your studio and having the skill and confidence to create anything you desire. From the tiniest ladys wristwatch, surrounded with articulated platinum leaves and set with diamonds, to enormous cast-bronze doors weighing over 800 pounds, your ideas can be made any size you want. You have training in multiple media, so your art can take form in precious or base metals, in forged iron, carved wood, stained glass, or stone. You have experience designing buildings, monuments, gardens, and interiors, and the many decorative items that transform these spaces into places of transcendent living. Also, dont forget the long list of prestigious clients who highly regard your abilities and commission you to create magnificent objects to enrich their lives.... (2005)
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| [985] Mary V. Smith - Burning Brightly |
A mesmerizing flame melting spectacularly colored glass into a perfect bead. The possibilities of infinite shapes and sizes. The beautiful jewelry those beads can become. All of these factors pulled Mary V. Smith of St. Peters, Missouri, into lampwork -- the art of using a torch to melt glass rods into beads. A corporate graphic designer for 20 years, she saw her industry changing in the ´90s and felt her creativity being stiffled by new technology, so she began exploring her options. She had dabbled in making jewelry and loved going to the St. Louis Art Fair. "I went to school for fine art and graphic design," she says. "I had to do something with my hands. I tried to transfer some of my knowledge and color theory into jewelry."
(2011)
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| [322] Matter into Metaphor - Transformation in Asian and Western Metals |
The origins of metallurgy are shrouded in mystery, contributing to the mythology that dev eloped around the metalsmith's art. With some variations this tradition existed in ancient China , Africa , and Europe but stemmed from roots so archaic as to arise from a basic principle.... (2002)
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| [635] Metaphors in Metal, Manfred Bischoff - Structuralist Jewelry |
Manfred Bischoff has a fascination with language. Like many Europeans of his generation, Bischoff is fluent in several languages, including German, English, French, and Italian. And, as an artist of his generation, he is similarly versed in aesthetic theory that arises from deep structure linguistics. Although he makes jewelry, he insists, I am creating language. If I find a sentence or a theme I like, then the piece is done. I must only, search for how to do it..... (2003)
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| [342] Modern Native American Jewelry in the Southwest |
Long recognized for the ubiquitous turquoise and silver squash-blossom necklaces and concho belts, the traditional metalwork of the Southwest has been in flux for well over half a century Jewelry and metal objects have been produced for both an Indian and a tourist market since the beginning of the twentieth century, and their popularity has witnessed the vagaries of travel, fashion, and the economy. During this same period, the cultures of those who produce this jewelry and those who consume it have changed.... (2003)
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