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Roman glass cup from a grave in Emona (present Ljubljana). Glass art refers to individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass.It ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces to wall hangings and windows, to works of art made in studios and factories, including glass jewelry and tableware.
Art glass is a subset of glass art, this latter covering the whole range of art made from glass. Art glass normally refers only to pieces made since the mid-19th century, and typically to those purely made as sculpture or decorative art, with no main utilitarian function, such as serving as a drinking vessel, though of course stained glass ...
Art and techniques using glass. Subcategories. This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total. * Glass artists (5 C, 47 P) Glass works of ...
Irving Amen (1918-2011), stained glass; Gary Beecham (b. 1955) Howard Ben Tré (1949-2020) Martin Blank (b. 1962) Jean-Pierre Canlis (b. 1973) Frederick Carder (1863-1963) Ed Carpenter (b. 1946) Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) Deborah Czeresko (b. 1961) Dan Dailey (b. 1947) Fritz Dreisbach (b. 1941) Robert C. Fritz (1920-1986) Michael Glancy (1950-2020 ...
A lump of glass was found at Eridu in Iraq that can be dated to the twenty-first century BC or even earlier; it was produced during the Akkadian Empire or the early Ur III period. [4] The glass is of blue colour, which was achieved with cobalt; such glass is generally known as Egyptian blue. Thus, such technique was attested in Eridu long ...
Unlike the glass art of the Art Nouveau in France, the Secession glass designs were geometric and abstract, without the curving lines and natural forms of the earlier style. Leopold Forstner was an important artist in this domain, working closely with Otto Wagner and other architects.
Glass can be coloured by adding metal salts or painted and printed with vitreous enamels, leading to its use in stained glass windows and other glass art objects. The refractive, reflective and transmission properties of glass make glass suitable for manufacturing optical lenses, prisms, and optoelectronics materials.
Stained glass artists and manufacturers (3 C, 41 P) Pages in category "Glass artists" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.