How Glassmaking Arrived in the US
1) The first glasshouse was built in Jamestown, Virginia in 1609. The people who worked there did not make decorative glass, but instead made things they could sell, e.g. bottles for water and wine, and panes for windows.
2) During the industrial revolution, glass-making had good news and bad news: these were made by the thousands—but made by hand!
3) Moldblowing was refined by the Romans, especially during the first century B.C.
4) What we owe moldblowing today is embodied by our ergonomic soda bottles.
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The Studio Glass Movement
1) The studio glass movement that started in the 1960s borrowed knowhow from glassmaking factories and gave it to artists for exploration. Using centuries-old techniques together with American styles, thus was born glassmaking studies sans the pressure of selling useful output.2) One result of this is that the American effort got some attention from the masters in Europe.
3) Let's pretend you're a visual artist hot on the trail of the next breakthrough. What do you do when you find out that glass could be melted at higher-than-usual temperatures, and just as stunning, that glass could be created by an artist in a residential studio? Americans Dominick Labino and Harvey Littleton did just about the above, and even put up a university glass studio for guiding the next generation of glass artists. For these innovations, Labino and Littleton became known internationally as the founders of the modern studio glass movement in the early 1960s.
4) Other names in the glass art world's who's who are Dale Chihuly (his 30-foot high, blown glass chandelier in the Victoria and Albert Museum is shown at right), Ben Moore, and Richard Marquis. They received Fulbright scholarships that introduced them to glassmaking abroad. And for a serious glass artist, it's impossible to visit Murano, Italy too much. Murano is the birthplace of coveted masterpieces like crystalline glass, enameled glass, glass with threads of gold, multicolored glass, milk glass, and imitation gemstones made of glass.
5) The gap between two giants of studio glass art was bridged when Maestros Checco Ongara and Lino Tagliapietra arrived as guests in the Pilchuck Glass School of Stanwood, Washington in 1979. Thus started the dream collaboration that criss-crossed both sides of the Atlantic.
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The Italians' Job
Concerto di Primavera by Maestro Lino Tagliapietra.
Photo credits: http://www.linotagliapietra.com/default.htm
1) Who is Lino Tagliapietra?
Tagliapietra is a Murano, Italy-based glass art Maestro. He is perhaps, and for all time, the one non-American with the most impact on its glass scene.
2) Lecturing to and collaborating with artists all over the world, his trademark are those tissue-thin globes with unearthly colors. These are known also as Venetian-style goblet making, said to be among the most mentally and physically demanding skill in the trade.
3) Another way that Italian know-how changed the US art landscape is through solid working, which is a blowpipe-method of sculpting hot glass. Like other techniques, it has its own set guidelines and "glass-speak" for attaining a desired form. Once more, the influence of Italy through other maestros like Loredano and Dino Rosin, and Pino Signoretto, have altered forever American glass to bring it to what it is now.
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1) Other styles that influenced the American glass scene are German and Czech glassmaking techniques, thanks to the likes of Erwin Eisch from Frauenau, and Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová from Prague and Peter Novotny from Novy Bor.
2) The Bohemian/Czech style of glassblowing brought to the US the innovation of gaffers that work standing up. The Bohemian method, meanwhile, lent ideas how to use of molds to hasten the process of forming an object.
3) Yet another source of inspiration are Scandinavian glassworkers and their own style of blowing. The result is sleek designs and tight forms, blending both colored (and colorless) glass, which has established their place in the contemporary glass scene.
4) Teamwork! The European glassmakers blew away their US counterparts during the 70's and 80's by introducing teamwork as a critical art ingredient. It took time for the team approach to make sense because the US artists believed going solo meant more control. Nevertheless, perhaps the look of team-made glass helped changed that notion.
5) How about you: what type of glass making method do you think will work for you? Yes, there are rules in this art, but as a whole, there are also different ways of doing the process.
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MiaBellezza
I've always admired those glass makers and they can really take the heat! Posted July 02, 2008 |
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willingboro
This is really an amazing Lens. Really defines the word Art. Posted June 26, 2008 |
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georgegijo
Your lens is successful in explaining how the art of lens making has been evolved through the history as well as the influence of different cultures on the art of glass making. Excellent. Posted June 19, 2008 |
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Maxxamillion
Great lens! I'm a big fan of the Studio Glass movement works of Dale Chihuly. Posted June 17, 2008 |
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Eclectic_Muse
It is such a beautiful art! Love the lens. Thanks! Posted June 17, 2008 |
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