beauty is as old as our generations/ field trip #6

      On Thursday May 25^th 2012 we went on our last field trip it was an adventure with all the rain and what not. But as the semester has come to an end the class has gotten harder and the reviews have been more connected to my life style. This week we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was a full house that day. 

         There were three main pieces that I just feel in love with. Which is the necklace by Kenneth Jay Lane, jewelry set by an unknown artist and a clip again by an unknown artist. These pieces were simply beautiful and all are white gold with beautiful diamonds. Such beautiful art work in the whole museum but what really caught my eye was the evolution on jewelry through out the years and generations. Theirs jewelry that are dated back to the 500 B.C that’s similar to the jewelry that a lot of people made from like jade stone really pretty. The works of art that I saw where of items that you could see this generation/ century owing because it’s so weird and well put.

The connection I see between all this art and the time it was created and know is that its all has one trigger in mind and its to be something beautiful to anyone eyes. There wasn’t one piece of jewelry that I believe this generation wouldn’t like. This field trip opened up my eyes and I notice that as for jewelry nothing has really changed threw out the years because it all means one thing beauty and class. Only thing that’s changed is how we create it.

Earrings (Clip)
Marshall Field & Co. (American, founded 1881)
Date: ca. 1985
Accession Number: 2008.190.11a, b

Jewelry Set
Date: third quarter 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.9a–c

Clip
Date: ca. 1950
Accession Number: 2008.190.14

Kenneth Jay Lane (American, born 1932)
Date: ca. 1980
Accession Number: 2008.190.18a–c

Ring
Date: fourth quarter 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.13

Earrings (Clip)
Kenneth Jay Lane (American, born 1932)
Date: ca. 1980
Accession Number: 2008.190.17a, b

Ring
Date: ca. 1965
Accession Number: 2008.190.46

Ring
Date: ca. 1970
Accession Number: 2008.190.49

Bracelet
Date: fourth quarter 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.138

Bracelet
Date: fourth quarter 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.139

Necklace
Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.275a–c

Earrings (Clip)
Date: fourth quarter 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.299a, b

Necklace
Date: 500 B.C.–A.D. 900
Accession Number: 2008.190.317a–c

Jewelry Set

Vendôme & Coro (American)

Date: late 1950s
Accession Number: 1995.464.1a–c

 Pendant

Elsa Peretti (American, born Italy, 1940)
Date: late 1970s
Accession Number: 2008.190.137a, b