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Julio González Pellicer was born in Barcelona, on September 21, 1876.He came from a line of metalsmith workers; his grandfather was a goldsmith in Galicia. [1] González's father, Concordio González, owned a workshop and as a young boy, González learned from him the techniques of gold, silver, and iron metalwork.
Due to the design movement of the time, Brandt's furniture pieces used a combination of woodwork and ironwork; the whole piece would be constructed of wood with accents of ornament in metal such as iron, steel, or bronze. In 1903, Brandt made his debut in the fine and applied arts society by exhibiting his work in the Salon des Artistes ...
Traditionally, metal sculpture meant bronze casts, which artisans produced using a mold made by the artist. Smith, however, made his sculptures from scratch, welding together pieces of steel and other metals with his torch, in much the same way that a painter applied paint to a canvas; his sculptures are almost always unique works.
Art Deco artists produced a wide variety of practical objects in the Art Deco style, made of industrial materials from traditional wrought iron to chrome-plated steel. The American artist Norman Bel Geddes designed a cocktail set resembling a skyscraper made of chrome-plated steel. Raymond Subes designed an elegant metal grille for the entrance ...
Continuous scroll decoration has a very long history, and such patterns were an essential element of classical and medieval decoration. The use of scrolls in ornament goes back to at least the Bronze Age; geometric scroll ornament has been found in the Palace of Knossos at Minoan Crete dating to approximately 1800 BC, [8] perhaps drawing from even earlier Egyptian styles; there were also early ...
Kasli cast-iron sculpture was produced in Kasli (Southern Ural), from the mid-19th century. A large collection, including an elaborate pavilion from the 1900 Paris World Fair, [1] is displayed in the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts. There is also a Kasli Museum of Iron Sculptures.