Course cycle

Artist's Jewelry

An odyssey at the heart of art history, collection and emotion

Artist's jewelry is a work of art in its own right. Conceived by an artist, who realizes it or not, it is an original vector for understanding Fine Arts on another scale.

Like a miniature work of art, an artist's jewel has a special relationship to the body and to the intimacy, because it is the only artwork that a collector can wear. Very often created by artists for their muse, their partner or their children, it is an object of love endowed with a particular emotional charge. Picasso collected pebbles on the beach for Dora Maar and painted them. The intensity of artistic creation is thus tied in these works with the gesture of passion.

Artist's jewelry is always a deeply moving object in the sense that it provokes emotion, heartbeat, even astonishment. Virtuoso or conceptual, figurative or abstract, geometric or not, he transgresses the codes of jewelry.

This course cycle offers you a chronological journey in five steps to understand the artist's jewels in their extraordinary diversity, from the Art Nouveau genesis to the great contemporary masters, including the Avant-Garde of Art Deco or from the Bauhaus, Post-Modernism and the creative freedom from the 70s to the 80s.

This diversity of approaches will be illustrated by creations from these periods, certain pieces of which you will be displayed during the courses, but also thanks to large collections bringing them together, each telling a personal story with the artist's jewel. Some collectors have chosen their pieces with the same quality as a great museum (Diane Venet, Clo Fleiss), while others have sought to express their sometimes baroque personality (Yves Gastou) or the intimate relationship maintained by the artist's jewel with the body (Solange Thierry de Saint-Rapt).

November 2nd: Artist's Jewels, from Art Nouveau to the 1950s 
November 9th: Artist's Jewels, from Modernism to the 1980s 
November 16th: Artist's Jewels, Through the Eye of the Diane Venet Museum-like Collection
November 23rd: Artist's Jewels, from the 1990s to the Great Masters of Contemporary Art
November 30 : Artist's Jewels, Through the Eye of some Great Collections – Ideal (Clo Fleiss), Baroque (Yves Gastou) and Body-related (Solange Thierry de Saint-Rapt) 

Your two teachers for this course cycle will be Delphine Antoine, art historian, author, jewelry collector, curator, antiquarian, and founder of Vissi d'Arte and Béatrice Vingtrinier, art historian, and teacher at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts.

NB: It is required to register for the whole cycle. It is not possible to register for a single session alone.

Dates: November 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30
Hours: 7pm – 8:30pm
Price: 250€ for the whole Course Cycle
Number of participants: 25 people maximum
Language: French