Tom Munsteiner is a senior master jewelry designer from Germany. His father was known as the "Picasso of the gemstone world". Bernd Munsteiner calculated a new perfect cutting technique that consists of some caniniform facet. This method makes big gemstones not only express their features but also their artistry.

Since 2000, Tom Munsteiner has been busy with Ritmo, a group of works that represents a high point of his oeuvre. It centres on rhythmically clocked iterations of sophisticated ornamental structures notched into the reverse, worked out to mark spatial depth in the crystalline shape through manifold reflections.

Tom Munsteiner is a past master at comprehending natural structures and their crystallographic planes and developing from them a design idea that visualises the >heartbeat< of nature as it has throbbed for aeons. On the one hand, he makes visible the natural >architecture< of the crystal; on the other, he makes visual clocking interpretable by treating it as an experientially synaesthetic acoustic space. As long ago as Vitruvius, the significance of the rhythmic iteration of architectural elements on a building had been pointed out and viewed as an indispensable aspect of decoration. However, the notches Tom Munsteiner carves into the reverse of his lucent crystals assume enormous plasticity. That is why the works in this group do not simply render visible the spatial planes of the crystal but incorporate the crystal itself into our lives as sculpture, especially since most of these works become gemstones for jewelry. 

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, the founder of realism painting, and the main representative of western modern art. In 1907, he created a famous landmark masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon which was the first cubist painting. This painting not only marked a key turning point in Picasso’s art life, but also revolutionized western art. In Picasso’s cubism painting, the elements are decomposed into angular geometry block. These pieces are not flat; they have a three-dimensional feeling as they are lined with shadows. We are not always able to determine if they are recessed or protruding; some of them look like an entitative geometry block, while others look like transparent fragments. These unusual geometry blocks give the painting integrity and continuity. In 1932, Picasso created Girl before a Mirror (Figure 1). This is both a cubist and neo-classical painting, and a masterpiece in extreme freedom - freedom of lines and color. The girl in the painting is turning before the mirror, her clothes are ajar, and her chest is exposed. This painting offers us three visions of the same girl: dressed, naked and X-rayed, all in Picasso’s own words. It may imply that a girl has different inner selves in order to face the world, but she actually keeps her true being deep in her heart.