Flowers and leaves.
Jewelry has always been used to decorate the human figure. The word "decoration" calls up
all kinds of evil connotations in the purified regions of modernism, but I use the term without
any negative overtones. In formal terms the decorative function of jewelry has been to
provide visual accents, color, contrast, and texture, as well as to focus attention to specific
parts of the body. In these senses, jewelry serves as a compositional device in the layout of
the human form.
This paragraph was written by Bruce Metcalf.
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