Collection Forma, Cubism inspired jewelry

Collection Forma, Cubist inspired jewelry

“Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view." - Jacques Lipchitz, Cubist Sculptor

Hey women folk out there, how do you like to adorn a pair of earrings or pendant that juxtaposes the feminine elements of petals and flowers with sharp and structural lines of Picasso's cubism? We at KaratCraft have introduced cubism inspired designer earrings, lockets and pendant sets with sunshine in mind for modern women who are always on lookout for mind blowing, fantastic and exquisite pieces of jewelry.

Collection Forma, inspired by the geometric, architectural elements, and color combinations of Cubist paintings and sculptures have been crafted keeping in mind the yearning for unique, simple and elegant jewelry designs by forward looking women. This minimal collection that offers maximum value have been designed for women who love bold yet dainty embellishments that blends with their party wear, gowns, ethnic and western wear, casuals, summer dresses as well as professional outfits. The cubist embraced designs have a combo of diamonds, manmade and semiprecious gemstones that are delicately embedded in the earrings and pendant sets.

Collection forma, a collection of 70+ designs include pendant sets, earrings and lockets are designed and carved out in 18kt gold paired with diamonds and semi-precious synthetic stones. Jewelry designers have used diamonds and semiprecious stones such as flux emeralds and synthetic sapphires to create new as well as startling combinations. The vibrant, strong colors of onyx, garnet and spinel have been used by the designers, in a similar way an artist would use his paints, to create jewelry of beauty and drama as never seen before.

Influence of Cubism in Jewelry

Cubism began at an exhibition in Paris in the year 1907 by Paul Cézanne, a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter. He believed that the things around him including nature can be displayed in forms similar to spheres, cones and cylinders. In brief, he had created a flat and two dimensional view of the objects and landscape and this trickled down to other artistic areas such as jewelry, and fashion. His work inspired Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and many others.

Cubist movement was headed by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris in the early twentieth century. Inspired by Cubism, Art Modern Jewelers created wearable jewelry in geometric designs for the common man instead of gem encrusted jewelry for the rich. Jewelry designs underwent a tremendous transformation.

Large jewelry houses such as Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier and Boucheron used Indian, Persian and Egyptian motifs as their muse. While the smaller group of designer adopted the European motifs as their designs.

The cubist jewelry designs were also known as Art Deco designs. Jewelry designs became simple under the influence of cubism. It was during this period, jewelers introduced "paved" work where stones were cut into rectangles, triangles, squares, hexagonal, trapezoidal and other odd shapes to perfectly fit with the neighboring stone. Jewelers used diamonds as well as myriad of colored precious and semiprecious gemstones to create an expanse of shimmering color.

India too contributed to the cubist jewelry in form of turban pins, brooches and bracelets. Dainty flowers and leaves carved out of emeralds, sapphires and rubies have been the elements in Indian jewelry from time immemorial.

Today, cubist inspired jewelry pieces are available in Karatcraft. They are known for their simplicity with explosion of colors used in artistic ways. It’s specifically designed for a wallet conscious non-traditional woman.