The Significance Of Industrial Civilization Jewelry Design

In the long history of Jewelry Design, industrial civilization in the middle of the 18th century had a significant impact on the jewelry design concepts. Industrial civilization was brought about by the industrial revolution as a civilization era since which human society entered a new historical period. With the rapid development of scientific and technological revolution and the economy, growth in wealth, the formation of bourgeoisie and its rapid increase, great ideological emancipation has occurred, especially the thinking in the Enlightenment that influenced everyone on reexamining the right and wrong in the history, suspecting persistence on routinism and accepting the notion of innovation. Jewelry industry also experienced such unprecedented change themselves from the traditional into its modernization process.This thesis centers about the significance of jewelry design brought by the advent of the industrial civilization and studies how Jewelry design quicken its step in the process of modernization under the influence of industrial civilization. Primarily through industrial civilization on the rise, the transition to the modern jewelry design concept and the significant impact of the "Bauhaus" design philosophy on jewelry design, as well as the innovative role of new materials and new techniques of jewelry design, Jewelry Design modernization tendency are gradually clarified. With the unstoppable trend of Industrial civilization impacting people unable to dispel their suspicion of traditional jewelry patterns at a loss situation, the two-way innovation in new design concept of spiritual aspect and the new materials and new technology of the material aspects promoted the enormous changes of the Jewelry design, which can be drawn. Meanwhile, further focusing on that: because of material wealth and technological leaps and the popularity of industrialization in the post-industrial society coupled with various ideas frequently changing when postmodernism prevailing, jewelry design tends to be diversified which makes people enjoy the jewelry feast brought about by today's industrial civilization. Although many styles are blended in the post-industrial society with the rise of ancient styles and national flavors, the jewelry in this period and the one before the implementation of mechanized mass production are quite different.Therefore, the significances in the content of these studies try to guide people to have a clear understanding on how jewelry design steps to modernization. Taking industrial civilization as the breakthrough point, a long, scattered history of jewelry has been recollected and explored to discuss how it has experienced an indispensable process of modernization, with a view to have a more in-depth understanding about this research, and thus hope to have the directly practical significance to design the fine works with characteristics of the times, cultural connotation, but also in accordance with the production technology.