Art jewelry. Italian phenomenon

Until the beginning of XX century jewelry, although it was influenced by the main directions of the stylistic development of art, in General, retained the special status of art, where almost exclusively worked for the goldsmiths. Gradually approaching the avant-garde stylistic movements in art and has been steadily losing value for the character exclusively class status, artistic decoration from the scope of the institutional structure was shifted to the sphere of culture and fashion. And their creators have been increasingly called artists, recognizing their right to engage in this special genre of plastic arts. In the mid-1940s, the development of a line of “signature” jewelry significantly intensified in Italy. Creating jewelry here has become a specialty, particular area of creative activity, embodied in the genre of “art jewelry”. Their creators were called “artists”.