{"id":166,"date":"2009-12-21T17:11:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T22:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/12\/21\/it-is-with-great-sadness-that-i-share-this-report-from-the-la-times\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T17:11:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T22:11:27","slug":"it-is-with-great-sadness-that-i-share-this-report-from-the-la-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/2009\/12\/21\/it-is-with-great-sadness-that-i-share-this-report-from-the-la-times\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is With Great Sadness That I Share This Report From The LA Times&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/Sy_WGl1tcQI\/AAAAAAAAC9A\/qChrg43-1Ys\/s1600-h\/Pineda.jpg\"><img style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;width: 320px;height: 213px\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1b23c_Pineda.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><span><\/p>\n<h1>Antonio Pineda dies at 90; Mexican modernist silversmith<\/h1>\n<h2>His works &#8216;made absolutely beautiful use of semiprecious and precious stones,&#8217; and the jewelry was &#8216;beautifully designed to fit the human body,&#8217; a museum curator says.<\/h2>\n<div><span><span>Antonio Pineda, the internationally renowned Mexican modernist silversmith who was praised for his bold, striking jewelry designs and ingenious use of gemstones, has died. He was 90.<\/p>\n<p>Pineda died of kidney failure Monday at his ranch home in Taxco, Mexico, said his daughter Veronica Falzone.<\/p>\n<p>A Taxco native, Pineda was among the most prominent of the many silversmiths to emerge from the mountain mining town beginning in the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>He was the subject of a 2008-09 exhibition at UCLA&#8217;s Fowler Museum, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fowler.ucla.edu\/incEngine\/?content=cm&amp;cm=past_news&amp;article_id=1052158432&amp;art=&amp;did=50\"><span>\u201cSilver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span>which traced the evolution of his work through the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was certainly one of the major modernist silversmiths in the 1950s, &#8217;60s and certainly into the &#8217;70s,&#8221; said Betsy Quick, the Fowler&#8217;s director of education and the show&#8217;s in-house curator.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><b><i>&#8230;for more of the story as reported in the <\/i><\/b><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-me-antonio-pineda20-2009dec20,0,1738476.story\"><span><b><i>Los Angeles Times&#8230;<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><span><b><i> and a gorgeous <\/i><\/b><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-ca-0831-silversmith-pg,0,5727284.photogallery\"><span><b><i>photo gallery of Pineda&#8217;s work<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1b23c_4698837677539896356-7934516595943434451?l=dailyjewel.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio Pineda dies at 90; Mexican modernist silversmith His works &#8216;made absolutely beautiful use of semiprecious and precious stones,&#8217; and the jewelry was &#8216;beautifully designed to fit the human body,&#8217; a museum curator says. Antonio Pineda, the internationally renowned Mexican modernist silversmith who was praised for his bold, striking jewelry designs and ingenious use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}