Gallery W.D.O.

Animal Magnetism

Gallery W.D.O. in Charlotte, NC, will present an exhibition entitled, Animal Magnetism, featuring clay sculptures by Rick Crown. The exhibition begins Feb. 1 and continues through Mar. 2, 2002. This show will be the last at the gallery’s Atherton Mill location in Charlotte’s South End district. Later this year, the gallery will move to a new location in the Hearst Plaza on Tryon Street in Uptown Charlotte.

Crown is an Associate Professor of Art at Queens College in Charlotte, where he has been on the faculty since 1971.

“This work owes a huge debt to those founding members of Modernism who valued African and Pre-Columbian art. They established a context for primitivism and validated naiveté. From these roots has grown my own exploration of animal forms,” says Crown, adding “With the energy of a child, I approach the plastic potential of clay to create these animals. Both construction and gesture are primarily spontaneous. Color and texture are used to emphasize the emotional expression of these creatures. When the work is at its best, I lurk beneath their body language and their attitudes.”

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Although jewellery work was abundantly diverse in earlier times, especially among the barbarian tribes such as the Celts, when the Romans conquered most of Europe, jewellery was changed as smaller factions developed the Roman designs. The most common artefact of early Rome was the brooch, which was used to secure clothing together. The Romans used a diverse range of materials for their jewellery from their extensive resources across the continent. Although they used gold, they sometimes used bronze or bone and in earlier times, glass beads & pearl. As early as 2,000 years ago, they imported Sri Lankan sapphires and Indian diamonds and used emeralds and amber in their jewellery. In Roman-ruled England, fossilized wood called jet from Northern England was often carved into pieces of jewellery. The early Italians worked in crude gold and created clasps, necklaces, earrings and bracelets. They also produced larger pendants which could be filled with perfume.

Like the Greeks, often the purpose of Roman jewellery was to ward off the “Evil Eye” given by other people. Although woman wore a vast array of jewellery, men often only wore a finger ring. Although they were expected to wear at least one ring, some Roman men wore a ring on every finger, while others wore none. Roman men and women wore rings with a carved stone on it that was used with wax to seal documents, an act that continued into medieval times when kings and noblemen used the same method. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the jewellery designs were absorbed by neighbouring countries and tribes.

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