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The Jewellery Art

This School mission is
material and form is a century tradition, jewellery art, this style is manifested by
“acquired” integrity that is why jewellers the synthesis of the global tendencies to strengthen, broaden
manage to work with the form freely in the mass-market, the European and cultural context of the
conserving the traditional nature, national traditions, in the attempt to
enriching it, and creating harmonious “standardise” the Yakut things. The Arctic art, pass it down,
things. production of so called “catalogue” items and underpin the
also pursue commercial aims mainly. It is
Dealing with the questions of the the creation of the compiled wares where high tradition of the
jewellery industry development, first of essential analogues are cited following realistic and academic
all, we speak about the existence of other tendencies. The third direction stands
traditions (folk, regional, and national) aside. It is a phenomenon that is typical school, the organic link
in the material culture, on the basis of for separate artists-jewellers, producers, of the current design to
which the cutting-edge jewellery art doing exclusive works, participating in
and production were set up. Sakha had different exhibitions. Among the wares of the folk art
had a powerful platform of the Turkic this trend, there are the ones that claim to
metalwork; from time immemorial, the be in the highly artistic category and they
types of the metalwork technologies are not of an industrial character. One can
had existed such as stamping, tapping, denote them as “art for art”. today, as it has already been mentioned.
moulding, coining, and blacksmithing; The elaboration of craftsmen and students
they were wildly-known. The material plus form is a century in the field of the artistic metal: jewellery,
tradition obtaining the integrity that small plastics, and functional things are
The capability of the conventional is difficult to be broken up. Everything distinguished by the high technological
form (folk, national) to live in the “native” is perfectly submitted to mastership, the image integrity, and
new conditions and be demanded by stylisation. However, everything utilitarian-artistic virtues.
consumers is one of topical themes today. superficial that is observed in combining
The artistic culture of our region is biased the Yakut and Western can frequently The works of students and graduates
in favour of general laws, which are suffer from eclecticism and heterogeneity. from the training programme “Applied
typical for the market. The exhibitions of Most of the Yakut producers work for Art and Folk Crafts” were marked with
the jewellery industry have shown recent the domestic market in the small republic republican, Russian, and international
years that there are not so many highly with the low consuming capacity. Some awards. Among the successful projects
artistic wares. Maybe, in many respects, it part of the production enters the Russian of 2017, one should note the works of
is linked to the new forms mastering and and Western markets. Yermolaeva N.V. “The Development of
an attempt to apply and “conciliate” them The folk art has the collective nature and the Handicraft Set” (2017), sup. Vasilyev
with the national form and elements. the mastership is to follow canons, not to N.A., Androsova D.V. “The Working out
Their “synthesis” has both positive and go aside. These things are valuable in the of a Wall Panel for the interior” (2017),
negative moments. conventional art. The Yakut traditional sup. Mamontov K.M., Ponokhova A.A.
metal jewellery surprises, first of all, with “The Set of the Exclusively Transformed
In today’s Yakutia’s jewellery art, one the form elegancy, the proportions harmony Female Adornment” (2017), sup.
can distinguish three directions. Firstly, it between details and deßcor. Chochchasov N.N., Nikitina Y.I. “The
is the “ethnical” one. There are traditional Dynamic Game-Pursuit “Sonor”” (2017),
wares, enterprises, and craftsmen working On the Design and Applied Art sup. Mamontov K.M., Mikhaylova A.V.
in this trend. In many respects, they try Department of the Arctic Institute of Arts “The Elaboration of a Male Set” (2017),
to restore the jewellery, according to and Culture, its own specific environment sup. Vasilyev N.A., and others.
museum specimens. It has a good quality. is created to prepare craftsmen of the
Changes are unavoidable in this direction artistic metal. The school specifics is in In general, the School of Art, Design,
because a craftsman lives in another the combination of the traditional and and Applied Art in the Arctic Institute
time and space. The things that he has professional technologies as well as the of Arts and Culture is the established
absorbed are embodied in his works later. design project ones. The organic co- tradition with its history, relations, and
They have self-development. The second existence of the old and new, the past ideas, based on the conservation and
trend is very large. It is a commercial in the present is possible in the modern development of the conventional North
style. It emerges in any art, which is industrial production, if the traditional and broader Arctic culture. This School
in contact with the production. In the is not only preserved but also serves as mission is to strengthen, broaden cultural
graphic design, the commercial style can the modelling basis. In the design of the context of the Arctic art, pass it down,
be revealed in eye-catching posters and new Yakut jewellery, the redesign of the and underpin the high tradition of the
very bright shapes, which are only aimed “mastered”, conventional shapes is one realistic and academic school, the organic
at being noticed and consumed. In the of the directions developing successfully link of the current design to the folk art.

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