Jewelry 

Ekaterinburg museum of Fine Arts started to collect jewelry in 1970s, when the works of Ural masters became well-known all over the world. That time they displayed at several significant Russian exhibitions and also out of Russia. Some Russian museums are eager to get the exhibits of jewelry from the Urals.
      Jewelry reached the time of independent aesthetic significance. The jewelry set acquire the features of a factory work. The author creates a complete, integral artistic image. Despite the variety of individual manners the Ural masters are united by emotionality, by knowledge how to emphasize the beauty of the stone by its setting. At any noticeable exhibition where different regions introduce their production the works from Ekaterinburg differ from others by its poetic and lyric fantasy of the creation a masterpiece. Every sample got through to the very stone that the author wants to give a life to the setting, to create the image, using natural qualities of the material. The stone, its colour and shape are the impulse for the artist to embody the idea into the stone.
      Love to stone helped Ural masters establish old traditions in creating the jewelry. In 18th century Ekaterinburg was already known as a centre of gem and stone cutting. The richness of artistic images, the plasticity of shapes and a broad range of technical methods are felt in the works by eminent masters that is V. Komarov, M. Babin, V. Khramtsov, L. Ustyantsev, V. Vetrov, M. Lesik, V. Sochnev. The works of the younger generation - A. Miroshnikov, S. Pinchuk, V. Ufimtsev, V. Denisov and N. Kusnetsova - possess the inner freedom and ease in the use of materials. Today the collection of the museum is a good sample of the trends and ways of the development of modern jewelry art. High professionalism and artistic value have found their way to the hearts of numerous visitors of the museum.