Vintage Artisan Sterling Silver Dichroic Art Glass Mosaic Pin Brooch BPOG

  

Vintage Modernist Pin in Sterling Silver, 1960's, Vintage Jewelry. Vintage Artisan Sterling Silver Dichroic Art Glass Mosaic Pin Brooch. Up for offer is a beautiful vintage artisan hand crafted solid sterling silver and dichroic art glass modernist brooch.

This brooch features a safety clasp. Dichroic Art Glass Dichroic glass has been around since the time of the Roman Empire. The Lycurgus Cup from the fourth century appears green or red, depending on the light.

The effect was achieved by using trace amounts of gold and silver in just the right measurements. NASA helped to popularize dichroic glass in the 1950s and 1960s. The American studio jewelry movement. Modernist studio jewelry began in the 1930s. Modern art was popular in Europe in the late 1920s, early'30s, but not so much in the United States.

Then, with Fascism and Nazism happening in Europe, a lot of modern art innovators came to the U. Many of these artists were immigrants, and they knew each other. Many lived and worked in Greenwich Village.

They would go to the Art Students League in New York, which was a free program during the war. They were inspired by each other to push the limits of jewelry as an art form and to change the way materials were used. It didn't matter whether the materials were intrinsically valuable. That's what appeals to me about this jewelry-not the value, not whether it's gold or silver or if the stones are diamonds, but the design and the uniqueness. Great addition to your collection?