[Jewelry making - Article 00032] - Re: [Orchid] Small Adventurers in the High-End Jewel Trade

[Dennis Loss]

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    When I was in graduate school a thousand years ago, I had a friend
    who's Master's thesis show was entitled "Art and Artifice". this
    thread and so many others seem to deal with this issue time and
    again. It is an interesting one. I don't have the answer because I
    think there isn't one. Aesthetics are the realm of intellect, it has
    nothing to do with technique. 

    I personally hate most of Picasso's work and feel that he became a
    hack. However, he opened the door to an aesthetic in art which has
    changed the way people think. I made abstract expressionist jewelry
    for years. crumbly bezels, snippets of old French horns lead
    soldered onto weird shaped pieces of copper, etc. I think what
    happens [at least for me] is that as you grow in your creativity, you
    may develop a love for the technical aspects of jewelry design. I
    fell in love with "the perfect stone" and all of the other things
    that jewelry is often about. I think that as we see more, we want to
    expand our ideas and techniques as we grow. Now I do Cad generated
    highly accurate work in high karat gold. Was some of my earlier work
    good? Yes, is all of my present work good?, not yet. But, I keep
    trying to improve my techniques because now my work is about
    technique and perfection of form. Earlier it was about emotion and
    exuberant creativity. There is room on the planet for both of these
    expressions. Price has nothing to do with it. If a customer will pay
    $1,111,111.00 for a crappy Picasso or a "crappy' piece of jewelry its
    their money and their aesthetic choice. Dennis

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