Sterling Silver Ring Purple Amethyst Oval Size 12 Brutalist Modern Avant Garde

Description: Exquisite Huge Vintage Amethyst Sterling Silver Ring. Excellently crafted piece with sculpted artistic workmanship. The Beauty and art of Mid Century jewelry never goes out of style and class. A large polished natural Amethyst cabochon is set in the center surrounded by an organic sculptural work of substantial Sterling Silver. The Amethyst is thick and high over its bezel creating a rich appeal against the bright Sterling. This is the kind of ring that is to be admired when worn due to its quality and beauty. A beautiful piece of art with a luxurious appeal. Measurements Weighs 15.2 grams Size 12 Top is 1" inch long 1" inch wide. Hallmarked 925. Vintage Avant-Garde Brutalist & Modernist Jewelry argued rather convincingly that contemporary art as a movement has failed miserably. Whether it takes the form of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism or Post Minimalism, contemporary art is often unattractive, if not downright ugly. These aesthetic shortcomings, combined with the movements intellectual inaccessibility, make contemporary art both an elitists dream and a practical failure. However, in one of those little ironies of life, the principles of contemporary art which fail so miserably when applied to large works like paintings and sculptures succeed rather brilliantly when applied to miniature works like jewelry. Modernist jewelry is one of the very few places that the ideas of contemporary art found fertile ground, blooming into an effusion of exquisite, unrivaled beauty. Modernist jewelry stands alone as an island of elegance in a sea of humdrum contemporary art. To say it embodies many of our modern concepts of beauty, while true, doesnt really do Modernist jewelry justice. Glittering precious metals gracefully fuse with countless different varieties of bewitching gemstones into a glittering mass of avant-garde style. One piece of Modernist jewelry may have sensuously organic forms seamlessly melt into heavily textured yellow gold while another hand-wrought specimen may have gracefully sweeping lines simultaneously vie with outrageously angular spikes for visual dominance. Modernist jewelry happily abandons all convention; the results are often breathtaking. The Modernist movement in jewelry had its origins in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. At that time, Victorian, Art Nouveau and Art Deco had all been popular jewelry styles within the past 50 years. However, some cutting-edge artists found these established traditions unreasonably constricting. In the end, they repudiated Victorian style as being needlessly ornamental, Art Nouveau as too rigidly naturalistic and Art Deco as excessively uncompromising and austere. Instead, Modernist jewelers envisioned themselves as peers to the great painters and sculptors of the age like Salvador Dali, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, among others. As a result, the radically new form of jewelry known as Modernism was born. Throwing convention to the wind, bold founding artists Sam Kramer and Art Smith fearlessly experimented with the new, unbounded Modernist ethos in their Greenwich Village studios. Andrew Grima, another famous Modernist jeweler, created such alluring, innovative work that he was appointed Crown Jeweller to the British Royal Family in 1970.

Price: 225 USD

Location: Salinas, California

End Time: 2025-01-22T01:12:26.000Z

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