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Czech Jewelry II

Article  /  Artists   History
 
Published: 16.02.2009
Czech Jewelry II.

Intro
The trends prevalent in the early 1960s, such as structuralism, manifested themselves in jewelry in a original way. The possibilities opened up through free-casting in silver, the lost-wax method and sand-casting thus creating irregular structures, together with the oxidation of smooth surfaces by various acids, of corrugating silver and of cooperplating , provided an inexhaustible number of technological options for creating striking aesthetic forms.