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Hm... I don't think I can agree with 'cast =perfect´/ 'handmade = sloppy'. Perhaps the casting can be made symmetrical and what not, but delicate shapes are difficult if not impossible: if the hole piece is one chunk (i.e. a continuous volume) than casting is great. I am not sure if the jewelry designs which actually benefit from this sort of treatment prevail.
Perhaps it is harder to get good hand work (the sort of Art of Platinum) than well finished castings. It is definitely more difficult to learn who knows how many ways to work precious metal down to visual 'perfection' than to draw CAD and then let a computer turn your 3D drawing into a wax shape (think of some 3D equivalent of printing) ready for casting by yet another machine.
After all, it was technology that killed the skill to begin with
true enough, each new techonology also has the potential to yeild new looks and designs that would have otherwise been unthinkable. Perhaps the billowy shapes of MWM jewelry would not have been there and Mark woul have been a great artist with a very different work. But examples are sort of few and the good looks there is still down to one guy's imagination and skill, not the technology that he can share (and probably at a higher cost) with anyone down the street.
This was a longer and angrier post. But there is another thread opened in the same time that does it better: THIS ONE
Of course, this is just a personal thing. Another perspective, if you wish. I would never deny that technological sophistication is a good thing overall, that it opens potential and what not. However, one potential technology has is to make cutting corners easier and for better or worse that effect comes first
If you can avoid it, good for you - such 'free riding' is difficult though
Perhaps it is harder to get good hand work (the sort of Art of Platinum) than well finished castings. It is definitely more difficult to learn who knows how many ways to work precious metal down to visual 'perfection' than to draw CAD and then let a computer turn your 3D drawing into a wax shape (think of some 3D equivalent of printing) ready for casting by yet another machine.
After all, it was technology that killed the skill to begin with
true enough, each new techonology also has the potential to yeild new looks and designs that would have otherwise been unthinkable. Perhaps the billowy shapes of MWM jewelry would not have been there and Mark woul have been a great artist with a very different work. But examples are sort of few and the good looks there is still down to one guy's imagination and skill, not the technology that he can share (and probably at a higher cost) with anyone down the street.
This was a longer and angrier post. But there is another thread opened in the same time that does it better: THIS ONE
Of course, this is just a personal thing. Another perspective, if you wish. I would never deny that technological sophistication is a good thing overall, that it opens potential and what not. However, one potential technology has is to make cutting corners easier and for better or worse that effect comes first
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