Magnolia and Irises, ca. 1908. Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass art

Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass art
The most brilliant representative of stained Art Nouveau creations, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was the son of wealthy parents. His father, Charles founded the jewelry firm “Tiffany and Co”, and the younger Tiffany studied painting in Paris and traveled through France, Spain and North Africa. Noteworthy, the huge impression on him made ​​the stained glass of Chartres Cathedral. Also, the “Movement Arts and crafts” influenced the ideas and the choice of Tiffany decorative art.
In parallel with the general economic recovery, increased interest in luxury in everyday life. Created by Lewis in 1879 with Candace Wheeler and Samuel Colman company “Louis C. Tiffany and Associated Artists” offered a wide selection of products for highly interiors of houses. In particular, furniture, textiles, glass, and design of interiors.
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A skull with mushrooms. Art brooches by Azumi Sakata

Art brooches by Azumi Sakata
Born in Kanagawa, Japanese artist Azumi Sakata got her Bachelor of Fine Arts after graduating from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 1994. Besides, Master of Fine Arts after studying at Royal college of Art in London, England in 1997. Talented artist jeweler has created the whole gallery of beautifully embroidered accessories made in a traditional goldwork technique. The artist uses gold metal thread, pearl, coral, Czech glass beads, leather for creating brooches, bags, amulets, and pendants. She successfully exhibits and sells her gorgeous handmade accessories, which are all unique, to private collectors.
Among her last solo and group art exhibitions – 2013 “I’m not afraid” in Tokyo and Brighton. Azumi Sakata loves embroidery work which she has mastered at the highest level. According to Azumi Sakata, her art brooches – based on three main concepts: “Life and Death”, “Fear and Love”, and “To express invisible things”. Azumi Sakata lives in Tokio, where she teaches art.
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A tiger. Precious stones painting by Alex Mosman

Precious stones painting by Alex Mosman
A unique Siberian artist from Yakutia, Mosman has created original paintings of gems and precious stones. Gorgeous and enchanting landscapes of mother Russia laid out with a multicolored stone powder without any additional drawing. Sadly, this year, Alex passed away, he was 42 years old. Mosman said about his art: “A beautiful nature that surrounds me, to a large extent contributes to creativity. Yet, the genes speak of themselves, because my mother is Russian and father is German, so I do the painting with a Russian soul and German quality.”
According to the artist, he used multicolored stone chips of various minerals to create his paintings. In particular, chrome diopside (Yakut emerald), Charoite, carnelian, jade, malachite, serpentine, fluorite, jasper, obsidian, Morion, vermiculite, muscovite, phlogopite, biotite, marble, quartz, amazonite, etc.
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American writer and graphic artist Edward Gorey (22 February 1925 – 15 April 2000). Edward Gorey cats

Edward Gorey cats
Chicago born self-taught artist and writer Edward Gorey was one of the most important figures in contemporary art. His black-and-white style illustrations decorated editions of such eminent writers as Edgar Allan Poe, HG Wells, TS Eliot, Samuel Beckett and John Updike. Noteworthy, Gorey was very fond of cats and even bequeathed his multi-million dollar state to the Animal Rights Society. Surprisingly, despite the artist’s love for cats, he portrayed them not very often. And if he did, it was only in anthropomorphic style, often in the form of dancers. Meanwhile, his dancing cats has become the real inspiration for jewelers. According to the artists, “Cats, like a ballerinas, extremely elegant, so I like to draw them dancing.”
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Duomo di Milano inspired doll “The Cathedral”. Artwork by Doll Artist Marina Bychkova

Doll Artist Marina Bychkova
Born and raised on the shores of the Siberian river Tom, in the city of Novokuznetsk, Marina Bychkova is a talented doll artist. From early childhood she was interested in the nature of the dolls and fell in love with them for ever. Meanwhile, when the girl was nine years old, her family immigrated to Canada. There she graduated from the Institute of Arts. According to Marina, she has always loved dolls, but in 2002, her love for them has grown into profession. After a long search of the media, Marina found perfect for her designs and ideas material – porcelain. Her very detailed dolls belong to the world of contemporary art – sculpture, painting, and jewelry art.
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Pine cones by Rene Lalique. Art Nouveau jewelry

Art Nouveau jewelry
An artistic style in European and American art of the late 19th and early 20th century, Art Nouveau (Modern) was the rejection of straight lines and angles in favor of a more natural smooth movement of curved lines. Stylistic originality based on Art Nouveau ornamental wavy lines of natural forms of flora and fauna. Also, Art Nouveau lines often resemble dancing, undulating arabesques, imbued with an organic energy and vitality of plants. And the source of ideas for Art Nouveau artists was nature. The most common topic was the bud (the symbol of the emergence of new life) and exotic plants with long stems and pale flowers. In preference were lilies, irises and orchids. In grand fashion were images of women with an incredibly long, flowing hair.
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Gorgeous Chinese Kingfisher art

Chinese Kingfisher art
First of all, this kind of art has more than 2 000 years of history. Chinese craftsmen and artists used the blue kingfisher feathers for creating fine art works – mosaics, jewelry pieces, decorative hairpins, fans, and wall screens. While art collectors all over the world search for such objects of Ch, however, Kingfisher traditional craft remains almost unknown.
Traditionally, Kingfisher art is the perfect combination of metal craft and feathers process, where blue kingfisher feathers carefully embedded to create various jewelry objects.
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