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Curating a home art collection is an exciting task that can span many years. Art from all periods of your life, representing different stages and places, can beautify and personalize your home. One mistake many collectors make is limiting themselves to wall mounted flat art pieces, like paintings and drawings — widening your perspective by...
As society continues to trend towards digital satisfaction through computers and smartphones, it can be difficult to find high-quality art made by real people. However, there are still hundreds of artists creating breathtaking glass artwork that can never be duplicated by technology. There is no shortage of contemporary glass artwork to choose from, but it’s...
Glass as a medium carries with it much historical and artistic resonance. The invention of glass blowing coincided with the establishment of the Roman Empire, which spread and enhanced the new technology. It enjoyed practical and artistic use through many ages, and recently its form has experienced a renaissance in the studio glass movement, which...
Although glass has been around as a medium since ancient times, and the invention of glass blowing itself coincided with the establishment of the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC, the modern art “studio glass movement” only began in 1962. Harvey Littleton, a ceramics professor, and Dominick Labino, a chemist and engineer, held two...
In the first century BC, the invention of glass blowing serendipitously co-occurred with the establishment of the Roman Empire, and the craft was carried throughout that era’s vast range. The “studio glass movement” officially began in 1962 when a chemist and a ceramicist held two workshops in Toledo. Since then, the medium has been used...
In today’s world, technologically advanced glass is just about everywhere. There are entire buildings made out of the stuff. There are cars with specially treated glass that’s hydrophobic. There are even galleries of amazing glass artwork and glass sculptures. However, there once was a time before humanity knew how to make or even use glass....
The art of making glass sculptures dates back to around the same time as the establishment of the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC, which enhanced the spread and dominance of this new technology. Since that time, contemporary glass artists have perfected the craft of working with glass and even devised new ways of...
Working with glass isn’t easy. Not only does it take temperatures of around 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit to be able to start working with glass, it also takes years of practice and dedication to the craft for contemporary glass artists to master the different techniques it takes to make glass sculptures. To give you a better...
Glass sculptures are some of the most amazing works of modern art. If you’ve ever had the privilege of laying eyes on one, you’ll know just awe-inspiring they can be, and yet, if it weren’t for the following glass artists, glass artwork would not be at the level it is today. Harvey Littleton Harvey Littleton...
It takes an incredible amount of talent and hard work to create art. For example, the two major methods of creating glass artwork, free-blowing and mold-blowing, transform raw materials into glass using temperatures around 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit. Karen LaMonte uses these extreme methods to create life-size glass sculptures, and as such, is more than worthy...
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