ART NOUVEAU JEWELRY

Jewelry was one of the purest, and most successful, expressions of the Art Nouveau movement. It captured the atmosphere and the pass ion of the fin de sicle, as well as the moral and artistic freedom that characterized the period. Fresh designs and motifs were crea ted with an intense excitement that was shared by artists all over the world. Sensuous animal and plant forms surged with new life/ the female form struggled toward a new freedom, suggesting a long-hidden eroticism/ and sunsets and changing seasons reflected the s ymbolic v...[Read more]