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Research On Relationship Between Jewelry And Whole Adornment For Woman

Posted on:2011-12-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X M WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360302992906Subject:Art of Design
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Adornment and its derivatives including adornment art, adornment beauty, and adornment style form a series of interrelated terms. In regard of scientific and macroscopic views, adornment belongs to a pervasive cultural behavior, yet of particular manner for people to pursue beautiful things. Jewelry exactly plays an important role in embellishing human beings for their wish. With methods of research and case analysis, this paper explores adornment history of jewelry development, analyses performance and usage of jewelry for woman adornment, and summarizes adorning methods and skills so as to harmonize the relationship between jewelry and wearers, according to adornment theory and aesthetic ideology.This paper does analysis and research on individual and mass characteristices and depth psychology revealed by jewelry, in respect of woman adornment psychology, cultural taste reflected by adornment, and function of jewelry in whold adornment for woman. Moreover, the paper analyses meanings brought by jewelry and jewelry adornment style of typical social class. Nowadays, jewelry has been valued by more women, playing more important role in whole adornment, and delivering personal information. The forth part of the paper analyses the function of jewelry in whole adornment for woman, narrates area of whole adornment for woman, explores external and internal elements to the whole adornment, and explains importance of jewelry. The fifth part displays features of various jewelries, including analysis to origin, type and style of earring, chest ornament, ring, and wristlet and provides a large number of jewelry matching cases.According to jewelry history, the jewelry adornment can be classified based on adornment psychology and goal: jewelry indicating fortune and social class as a symble of power, and being a sign of aim, identity and status of religion and race as well as a self-protection tool and amulet for a special function. So far, jewelry has been considered as personal identity embellishment, ego embodiment, and way to attract the opposite sex.The jewelry value can be reflected in different respects. The economic value embodies"practical value"while recognition value embodies"moral function". However, the aesthetic value of jewelry satisfies women's need for beauty. Appreciation of the beauty is kind of attention paid to the world based on standard of personal feeling. In the same circle of people, aesthetic appreciation differences are indicated by their age, sex, education, manner and personality. Along with the progress of open society and cultural communication, aesthetic appreciation should become more international and show stronger era characteristics.
Keywords/Search Tags:jewelry aesthetic appreciation, adornment aesthetics, whole adornment, adornment feature
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