Bonnie Kondor jewelry art inspired by great masters
Head of a Woman in Red by Renoir 3D brooch pin. 1980s. Bonnie Kondor jewelry art inspired by great masters
Bonnie Kondor jewelry art inspired by great masters
Born in 1946, the talented American watercolor artist, teacher and jeweler Bonnie Kondor graduated from Lake Forest College in Illinois and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduation she taught art at Roberto Clemente High School in Chicago for over thirty years. Having retired from teaching, she moved to California and became interested in watercolor painting. The main motif of her watercolors was the beauty of flowers.
An important stage in her life was her passion for jewelry design and the creation of unique jewelry, which today has become highly collectible. Having founded her company Bonnie Designs in California in 1982, she began creating and selling handmade jewelry. Her brooches and pendants are unique miniature three-dimensional works of art, inspired by great masters – Picasso, Renoir, Monet, Seurat, Miro, Klimt, Cezanne and others.
Handcrafting jewelry, Bonnie created a three-dimensional collage of paper, covering it with multi-colored acrylic and glass beads. To achieve the long-lasting beauty and durability of the pieces, she used polymer coatings, resin, varnishes, and enamels. Also, each brooch has a vibrant gold-tone border that shimmers with gold in the light. On the back of each brooch or pendant, Bonnie hand-signed the artist’s name, such as “Seurat & Me,” Bonnie Kondor, and sometimes dated them.
Kondor created jewelry for just over a decade, closing her company in the mid-1990s. 75-year-old Bonnie Kondor and her husband, Laszlo Kondor, 81, now live in La Quinta, California.
Inspired by Gustave Caillebotte Rainy Day in Paris three dimensional brooch pin
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Bonnie Kondor jewelry art inspired by great masters
Based on ‘Portrait of Sylvette David in Green chair’ by Pablo Picasso resin and plastic art brooch
Brooch depicting a samurai in front of a bamboo scene, accented with black, yellow, brown, red, and clear beads
Cat brooch pin. Glass, resin, faux pearls, acrylics
Gauguin & Me 3D brooch
Interpretation on the painting of a Spanish Catalan artist Joan Miro 3D brooch pin
Miro & Me art collage glass resin artisan brooch pendant
Monet’s Waterlilies inspired brooch pin
Nefertiti Egyptian motif brooch
O Keefe & ME red poppy gold tone beaded brooch pin
Renoir & Me mixed media artisan brooch pin
Ton Amour Est Pour Moi ma Vie heart artisan 3D brooch pin
Warhol inspired 3D art brooch
Watercolors:
Carnival Peonies watercolor painting
Iris watercolor painting
Yellow lilies
American watercolorist, teacher and jeweler Bonnie Kondor
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