GLASS ART

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The term 'Glass art' is a broad reference to the use of glass an artistic medium. Specific approaches include stained glass, working glass in a torch flame (lampworking), glass beadmaking, glass casting, glass fusing, and, most notably, glass blowing. As an artistic medium, glass was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria, brought to the fore by the Romans (who developed glassblowing), and includes among its greatest triumphs European cathedral stained glass windows. Great ateliers like Tiffany, Lalique, Daum, Gallé, the Corning schools in upper New York state, and Steuben Glass Works took glass art to the highest levels. Glass from Murano (also known as Venetian glass) is the result of hundreds of years of refinement and invention. While there are now more hotshops and glass artists working in Seattle, Murano is still held as the real birthplace of modern glass art,
The glass objects created are not primarily utilitarian but are intended to make a sculptural or decorative statement. On the market, their prices may range from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars (US). The best known contemporary glass artists include Dale Chihuly, Lino Tagliapietra, William Morris, Howard Ben Tre, Pino Signoretto, Bertil Vallien, Dante Marioni, Dan Dailey, Livio Seguso, Benjamin Moore, Tom Patti and Marvin Lipofsky to name just a few.
Prior to the early 1960s, the term "glass art" referred to glass made for decorative use, usually by teams of factory workers, taking glass from furnaces with a thousand or more pounds of glass. This form of glass art, of which Tiffany and Steuben in the U.S.A., Gallé in France and Hoya Crystal in Japan and Kosta Boda in Sweden are perhaps the best known, grew out of the factory system in which all glass objects were hand or mold blown by teams of 4 or more men. In fact, the turn of the 19th Century was the height of the old art glass movement while the factory glass blowers were being replaced by mechanical bottle blowing and continuous window glass. In the factory, every member of the team does the same job repeatedly turning out dozens or hundreds of the same item each day.

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Contemporary North American glass artists

''Glowing Gemstone Polyvitro Chandelier'' by American sculpter Dale Chihuly

United States

Among the most famous and pivotal modern masters in the United States are: Harvey Littleton (the founder of the American Studio Glass Movement), Dominic Labino, Dale Chihuly, Dante Marioni, Benjamin Moore & Richard Marquis.
Other noted American glass artists are Cappy Thompson, Josiah McElheny, Christopher Ries, Jean-Pierre Canlis, Marvin Lipofsky, Michael Moore, Joel Philip Myers, Joe Thomas, Dan Dailey, Martin Blank, Richard Jolley, William "Billy" Morris, Jonathan Myers, Robert Mickelsen, Jennifer Elek, Milon Townsend, Moshe Bursuker,Erica Rosenfeld, Deborah Czeresko, John Brekke, JDC Roman, Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, Shane Fero, Sally Prasch, Mark Peiser, Flo Perkins, Audrey Handler, Sylvia Vigiletti, Fritz Dreisbach, and Hans Godo Frabel, Paul Marioni, Richard Jolley, Benjamin Moore, Dick Weiss, Walter Lieberman, Bob Carlson, David Patchen, Brian Pike, Robbie Miller,Bob Snodgrass, Marc Petrovic, Peter Ivy, Stephen Rolfe Powell, Curtiss Brock , Kari Russell-Pool, Lance Friedman, Kristine Cheeseman, Jean-Pierre Weill. Michael Shinner, Katherine Gray, Steven Durow, Charlie Parriot, Preston Singletary, Steve Klein, Kathy Seff, Trinh Nguyen, Jim Mongrain and Chauncey W. Gannett.

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Czech

Postwar Czech glass movement still dominates the contemporary glass scene worldwide. This can clearly be seen in the works of artists such as S. Libensky/J. Brychtova, Vaclav Cigler, Vladimir Kopecky, Rene Roubicek, Pavel Hlava and Martin Janecky, among others. Stanislav Libensky Prague school from 1964 until 1987 had much to do with establishing the Modern Czech glass movement and its success left indelible mark on the contemporary world glass movement.^[1]

Denmark

Tobias Møhl

Estonia

Ivo Lill

Finland

Timo Sarpaneva

Germany

Karl Ittig and Thomas Mūler-Litz

Italy

Sculpture by British sculptor Peter Newsome

Lino Tagliapietra, Pino Signoretto, Silvano Signoretto, Lucio Bubaco, Cesare Toffolo, Carlo Tosi "Caramea", Davide Salvadore, Oscar Zanetti, Davide Fuin and many more...

Slovakia

Milos Balgavy, Eva Fiserova, Juraj Oprsal, Askold Zacko

Sweden

Bertil Vallien, Kjell Engman, Tina Lindström, and Vicke Lindstrand.

United Kingdom

Perthshire in Scotland was best known internationally for its glass paperweights fighting hard for sales in a declining market. It has always hosted the best glass artists working on small scales, but closed its factory in Crieff, Scotland in January 2002.
There is a growing number of Art Glass studios in the UK. Many specialise in production glassware while others concentrate on one off or limited edition pieces. E+M glass have successfully combined both disciplines since the mid 1980's. Ed and Margaret Burke of E+M glass, have their work in many respected shops and galleries around the world.
Peter Newsome is a UK-based glass sculptor. Jeremy Langford.

Contemporary Asian Glass Artists

Japan

Japanese glass art has a short but very rich history. The small Pacific island, Niijima, administered by Tokyo has a world-renowned glass art center, built and run by Osamu and Yumiko Noda, graduates of Illinois State University where they studied glass with world renowned glass artist and teacher Joel Philip Myers. Every autumn, the Niijima International Glass Art Festival takes place inviting top glass artists, such as Richard Marquis, Joel Philip Myers and Dale Chihuly, for demonstrations and seminars. Niijima glass art uses a rock indigenous to the island, rhyolite, a silica-based sandstone, known locally as koga.

Contemporary Oceania Glass Artists

Australia

Contemporary Australian Glass Artists include:

Nick Mount, Ben Edols, Kathy Elliot, Klaus Moje, Tony Hanning, Gerry King, Clare Belfrage, Brian Hirst, Warren Langley, David Hay, Nick Wirdnham, and Maureen Williams.

The early Glass movement (studio glass) in Australia was spurred on by a visit to Australia by American artist Richard Marquis, who toured the country in the early seventies with a mobile studio assisted by Australian Nick Mount. Since that time Australian Glass has gained worldwide recognition with Adelaide in South Australia, hosting the International Glass Art Society Conference in 2005 on only its third occasion outside of the U.S.A.

Contemporary Latin American Glass Artists

Mexico

Mexico was the first country in Latin America to have a glass factory in the early XVI century brought by the Spanish conquerors. Although traditional glass in Mexico has prevailed over modern glass art, since the 1970's there have been interesting contemporary glass artists that in an individual way have given a place to that country in international contemporary glass art.
Contemporary Mexican Glass Artists include:

Feliciano Bejar, Pedro Ramirez Vázquez, Ana Thiel, Bert Glauner, Christian Thorton, Berta Picallo, Valeria Florescano, Luisa Restrepo, Miguel Angel Flores, Orfeo Quagliata.

Bibliography

★ Bibliography of paperweight reference books

References

1. Petrova, Sylva: Czech Glass (2002) Gallery. ISBN 80-86010-44-9.

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