Modern jewelry in the context of Asian jewelry traditions
Traditional Asian jewelry art is an organic part of Asian culture, with its interwoven heterogeneous ethnos, religious mythological traditions, cultural influences and ideologies. Jeweler art, as one of the types of decorative and applied art, embodies the person's ideas about the micro- and macrocosm, performs many functions, which ultimately are interrelated both with the genres of art and with its materials. Modernity largely inherits the Asiatic antiquity in the functional of jewelry. Obviously, the traditional functions of jewelry can recognize the next functions: of being a talisman; a sign of social status bearing certain information; an accessory that performs aesthetic tasks. Using these traditions and creatively interacting with them, modern jewelry art is engaged in a rethinking of forms and materials, fills the old forms with new meanings and functional. Today we are witnessing a process, in many ways related to the oriental hobbies of the XIX century, when the jewelry art of Europe experienced a serious interest in the forms and techniques of China, India, the Arab-Muslim culture, Japan. Despite the fact that today jewelry is perceived primarily in its aesthetic, rather than magical, functions, modern designers traditionally retain the established attitude to the symbolism of stone, gold, silver.