Alexander Calder and Victorian Jewelry

Deconstruction and Ornaments

The deconstruction and ornaments is the development of postmodern architecture that began in late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure or surface of the skin, non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the architectural elements such as structure and envelope. The final visual appearance of the buildings that have many deconstructionist "style" is characterized by a stimulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos (Derrida, 33).

Alexander Calder: Modernist Jewelry

The twentieth century was in many ways the beginning of communication worldwide (Prather, 17). Communication need not be carried out only through the spoken or written, enabling the mere physical proximity of the progress of the progressive transport of time allowed those who only a century earlier, might never have met in person to see each other face to face.

It was through this development that the modernist movement was founded and flourished-a flow of influences from around the world feeds the imagination of a new generation. It was in this atmosphere that the great American creator Alexander Calder found his artistic birth. The modernist style was perhaps the first great epoch in which humanity, at least in the western portion of it, he saw a clear difference between past and present, a break in the traditional continuity. It was a rejection of the old, but also fear of what lay ahead. The modern age had arrived, and that was new, wonderful, terrifying, a change that heralded a new beginning.

Perhaps the most important American craftsman of the modernist period, Calder produced both sculpture and jewelry with an insatiable passion.

A gradual progression of events leading Calder in other ways, but never abandoned his interest in painting and portraiture. Throughout these processing steps, there was a continuous thread, an icon of instruments, which in time would transform it, and that characterizes Alexander Calder. In his work as an illustrator for the tabloid National Police Gazette, which are presented to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

This was a lasting impression on the artist. "It was the daring of the performers," Calderon said, "no tricks or deceptions, but he was the outstanding balance in motion, the artists exhibited.

Calder Jewelry is an innocent nature, a joy that does not take very seriously, and less on themselves. In his works we find the spontaneity, imagination and daring. For artisans, often ...