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Beyond the objects themselves, jewelry has been used as a narrative device in historical paintings to symbolize status, power, and identity. Barcelona jeweler Lluis Masriera (1872-1958) was inspired by Lalique after visits to the Expositions Universelle in Paris. His bracelets and pendants included whimsical elements, such as dragonflies with wings that trembled as the wearer moved. He was a visionary Catalan jeweler and artist who transformed his family's traditional business into a world-renowned icon of Modernisme (Catalan Art Nouveau). He is best known for pioneering complex enameling techniques and creating jewelry that fused female forms with nature. Lluís Masriera was a "Renaissance man" of the Catalan avant-garde, also excelling as a painter, a Theatrical Figure and a Cultural Leader. The Modernist jewels present the usual characteristics of this movement: freedom of composition, curved lines, polychromes and the role of the flower, fauna, and feminine figures. In the Masriera workshops the elaboration process of the jewels, many of which were articulated and adapted to the body of those who wore them, combined the craftmen’s procedures with a degree of mechanisation in the creative process, repeating models, to reach different social levels.
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