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Art historians? Those intricate Inlay Patterns? ?
Y'know, those stylised flowerpot and torch patterns that we still like to see inlaid in abalone on the headstocks of Gibson style mandolins and banjos and Martin style guitars.
Are they "Arts & Crafts" ? Art Deco ? Art Nouveau? or ? And if one, why not another ? Why do we still want these older arts movements on our instruments ? Why not?
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Art Deco is normally identified by its geometric design whereas Art Novoue is more organic and flowing. The flower pot inlay doesn't strike me as either, but I'm no expert and I'm sure someone will chip in with a broader knowledge.
Don't know why we love 'em but personally I love a bit of bling. |
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The vase and flowers motif was a common decorative element starting around the 1880’s, which puts it earlier than any of aesthetic movements you mentioned, Andy. I suppose we could classify it as Beaux-Arts, but I think it precedes even that.
I think the main reason it’s been used for so long and continues to be used is that it looks attractive and signals a higher level of decoration but is relatively simple to execute, at least in pearl and abalone inlaid into headstock veneers. It’s more complicated to execute in plaster as a bas relief in the molding around a room, and that sort of decoration in interior decoration has long since fallen out of fashion, so long that the craftsmen who used to do that sort of work no longer exist. But it lives on in guitar headstock inlays, for the reasons I mentioned. Hope that makes sense. Wade Hampton Miller |
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Modern art – 1860 – 1945 Note: The countries listed are the country in which the movement or group started. Most modern art movements were international in scope. Impressionism – 1860 – 1890, France American Impressionism 1880, United States Cos Cob Art Colony 1890s, United States Heidelberg School late 1880s, Australia Luminism (Impressionism) Arts and Crafts movement – 1880 – 1910, United Kingdom Tonalism – 1880 – 1920, United States Symbolism (arts) – 1880 – 1910, France/Belgium Russian Symbolism 1884 – c. 1910, Russia Aesthetic movement 1868 – 1901, United Kingdom Post-impressionism – 1886 – 1905, France Les Nabis 1888 – 1900, France Cloisonnism c. 1885, France Synthetism late 1880s – early 1890s, France Neo-impressionism 1886 – 1906, France Pointillism 1879, France Divisionism 1880s, France Art Nouveau – 1890 – 1914, France Vienna Secession (or Secessionstil) 1897, Austria Mir iskusstva 1899, Russia Jugendstil Germany, Scandinavia Modernisme – 1890 to 1910, Spain Russian avant-garde – 1890 – 1930, Russia/Soviet Union Art à la Rue 1890s – 1905, Belgium/France Young Poland 1890 – 1918, Poland Hagenbund 1900 – 1930, Austria Fauvism – 1904 – 1909, France Expressionism – 1905 – 1930, Germany Die Brücke 1905 – 1913, Germany Der Blaue Reiter 1911, Germany Flemish Expressionism 1911–1940, Belgium Bloomsbury Group – 1905 – c. 1945, England |
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For Martin's inlay history see: http://vintagemartin.com/inlays.html
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The flowerpot works especially well with the curvy F-style, I think. Last edited by AndrewG; 01-19-2019 at 05:59 PM. |
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I was told these were just traditional banjo designs - no idea where or how they originated -
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