Discussion On Contemporary Art Jewelry

As a major category in the field of contemporary jewelry, art jewelry gradually emerges from the traditional jewelry on the concept of maintaining value, but to expands its original decorative features which depend on the human body and becomes a means of artistic expression and vector. It focuses on art expression and spiritual connotation of jewelry works. Together with the"human body", it discusses on the relevance between "human" and "objects". As a diverse, young form of creation, contemporary art jewelry provides a lot of inspiration for the development of traditional jewelry business, in spite of their own improvement and development.Combined with the creative practice of myself, this paper straightens out the concept of art jewelry, analyzes the characteristics of contemporary art jewelry, and summarizes the vocabulary and expression patterns of contemporary art jewelry. In the process of analyzing the characteristics, it distinguishes the contemporary art jewelry from traditional commercial one in four aspects of functional transformation, value orientation, production form and target groups. When analyzing the vocabulary of contemporary art jewelry, the paper discusses from the relevance between "human" and "objects", symbolic of the traditional meaning of jewelry, material vocabulary, form vocabulary and technology vocabulary, looking forward to concluding the development of contemporary art jewelry and general laws and showing the overall features of contemporary art jewelry.