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By Einar & Jamex de la Torre
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Years ago we inherited a lovely collection of glass perfume bottles. Studying them takes me back to my grandparent's house. The three sided mirror that was part of my grandmother's dressing table was always entertaining. However, I often found myself tracing my fingers over the glass perfume bottles sitting on the table. Here's to treasured memories! This link shares a brief history of glass perfume bottles if you are interested: blog.cmog.org/2014/09/02/a-brief-history-of-the-glass-per...
Taken inside the exquisite Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.
"Window with Hudson River landscape from Rochroane"
Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1905.
St. Peter's Square in Rome (about 1879, Vatican Mosaic Workshop).
Mosaic is made of the smallest pieces of colored glass.
El mosaico está hecho de las piezas más pequeñas de vidrio de colores.
La mosaïque est faite des plus petits morceaux de verre coloré.
Mosaik besteht aus den kleinsten farbigen Glasstücken.
il mosaico è fatto dei più piccoli pezzi di vetro colorato.
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Corning Museum of Glass
Canon EOS REBEL T3i
The Corning Museum of Glass is a highly recommended destination.
This piece is Cityscape by Jay Musler.
From my archives:
Seen at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. I'm not sure what this piece is called since I forgot to take a picture of its description. :)
Glass Sculpture at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.
Enhanced in Photoshop with NIK filters.
Goblet with Grotesque Decoration.
Venice, about 1500-1525.
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.
Please take a moment to click on
for a fascinating description of this phenomenal glass work by
MICHAEL SCHEINER who "is committed to the notion that ideas are as important as craftsmanship."
CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS Corning, New York
“Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.”
~ Eddie Myers ~
“A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color.”
~ William Bolitho ~
This is part of the chess set by Gianni Toso at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.
The Corning Museum of Glass is a highly recommended destination.
From my archives:
"Cu' Chulainn" (1985) by Clifford Rainey at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.
"(1985) by Dale Chihuly at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.
This past weekend we visited the phenomenal in Corning, New York. The most gorgeous exhibits I've ever seen in my life . . . Stay tuned!
Click on this link for more fascinating information on the gorgeous chandelier!
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“I don't mean finding 15 different ways to swing from a chandelier. But novelty in life drives up peoples sense of well being.”
~ Linda Fisher ~
To Die Upon a Kiss (2011) by Fred Wilson "draws its name from the dying words of Shakespeare’s Othello, and is inspired by the highly decorative chandeliers that adorn the palazzos lining Venice’s Grand Canal. In this work, Wilson refers to the enduring, but rarely discusses, African population in Venice. The color of the sculpture gradually shifts from opaque black at the bottom to colorless glass at the top, depicting the slow ebb of life."
The hanging, suspended sculpture (by the men in the photo)
is called Fog (2007) by Ann Gardner. "It is a suspended sculpture in which hanging mosaic-covered pods in grays and whites imitate the atmospheric condition of clouds that are opaque one moment and translucent the next."
This glass blower sculpture is at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.
Despite the spotlight on the hanging sculpture, it was dimly lit so the ISO is set pretty high.
The George A. Macbeth Co. started making glass in Charleroi in 1893, later merging with Thomas Evans & Co to form the Macbeth-Evans Glass Co in 1899. Some of these buildings pictured here were part of that original factory, at least as far as I can tell comparing current satellite views to early 20th century Sanborn maps.
Corning purchased the plant in 1936 and served as the longest tenured owner of the factory, ultimately selling it World Kitchen in 1998. The Pyrex brand (the glassware manufactured in this plant) went through multiple private equity owners in the last 25 years. After a bankruptcy of Instant Brands, the most recent owner of the Pyrex brand, Anchor Hocking took over the plant in early 2024, only to announce their intention to close the plant by early 2025.
Rolleiflex 6008 Professional
Kodak Ektachrome 100
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From my archives:
"Putti Lounging on Crab Resting on Orange Madder Vessel"(1999) by Dale Chihuly at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
"There's a little brown road winding over the hill
To a little white cot by the sea
There's a little green gate
At whose trellis I wait
While two eyes of blue
Come smiling through at me."
~Arthur A. Penn~
While sitting here on their bench,
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While waiting for my family to finish shopping at the Corning Museum of Glass gift shop I really liked the shapes of this wing of the museum above the outdoor café these pictures are the results of just sitting at the Café Express on a fall afternoon.
December 16, 2018 at Corning Museum of Glass. We spent a wonderful morning at this amazing museum.
This is just one of the many beautiful pieces of which we were able to admire. "Cityscape Bowl" by Jay Musler, 1998
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For Cityscape, Jay Musler (b. 1949) chose a spherical container blown of industrial Pyrex glass, which he cut in half. He then cut the rim of the hemisphere into a jagged edge, sandblasted it, and airbrushed it with oil paint. Cityscape evokes an urban landscape at sunset, the profiles of buildings uniformly darkened by the setting sun glowing red-orange in the distance. Although Musler is best known for his sculpture assembled from pieces of painted flat glass, Cityscape is one of his most widely recognized works. It is an excellent example of how studio glass artists have interpreted traditional domestic glass forms, such as the functional bowl, as sculpture. In an effort to dissociate sculpture in glass from craft, many contemporary artists have avoided using traditional containers. However, in Cityscape, the viewer respects the interior space as nonfunctional. The sculpture’s relatively large size and its combination of decorative techniques reflect new trends in studio glassmaking in the 1980s.
Some of vast number of pieces on display in the Carder section of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.
At the Corning Museum of Glass there is a separate room for Frederick Carder's works.
An oldie that I've temporarily bumped up to the top of my photostream: While You Are Sleeping (2007) by Christina Bothwell.
Cast glass, raku ceramic.
Christina Bothwell is known for her charming yet strange human figures and anthropomorphic animals in kiln-cast glass, which sometimes incorporate textiles or other materials in addition to low-fired raku. Her figures are animated, energetic, and sometimes flipped upside down. All of them are mysterious and alluring. Recently, Bothwell’s work has taken a more symbolic turn with her interest in birth, death, and physical transformation.
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.
This is certainly modified from the actual display, but a colorful representation of the overhead lamp constructed of colorful glasses. Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.
Material Culture
Beth Lipman (American, born 1971)
(Forgot I had this in my photographic collection of Beth's work!)
While searching the phenomenal
looking for information to document the images I captured,
I came across some exciting videos (see link below) . . .
Beth has glued vessels to form a glass tower
which purposefully overwhelms a small table,
making a statement about the cultures of excess!
Beth hand blew all the images on this table, photographed them for the still life and then broke them to symbolize the impermanance of still life material (often food images)!
I found so many exhibits full of symbolism and metaphors which give a whole new meaning to glass art!
Click
for a fascinating video which further explains Beth's amazing process and philosophy.
From my archives:
Seen at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. I'm not sure what this piece is called since I forgot to take a picture of its description. :)
TONY CRAGG
Blood Sugar
Artist Cragg's early working years as a lab technician had some influence on his career when he became interested in art and glass. The title of this work was inspired by the shape of glucose molecules. The sculpture, containing five separate elements, can be arranged in different ways. Thus everyday objects such as cups, bowls, plates and pitchers can be transformed.
Thirty objects of irregularly cut and etched glass are glued onto both sides of sheet glass!
“All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost;
the old that is strong does not wither,
deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
a light from the shadows shall spring;
renenwed shall be blade that was broken,
the crownless again shall be king.”
~J.R.R. Tolkien~
This was another fascinating exhibit at the
CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS Corning, New York
from glass textile wheels to
nuts and bolts to
Victrola record disks to
fuses to
battery jars to
power cable hangers to
X-ray and camera tubes . . .
Dorothy Hafner, assisted by Lino Tagliapietra, Corning Museum of Glass. Photo by Wayne Stratz, 2014.
Zoomorphic Stone
Sculpture
Stanislav Libensky (Czech, 1921-2002), Artist
Jaroslava Brychtova (Czech, born 1924), Artist
Made: Czechoslovakia, Zelezny Brod
H: 60.4 cm W: 55 cm
Date 1957-1958
Designed for Expo '58, the Brussels World's Fair.
Inspired by recently-discovered cave paintings in Lascaus, France, the artists were awarded a grand prize for this design.
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Please click on this link for more information
(including what I've quoted below) . . .
"Borosilicate glass is commonly known in the United States as Pyrex. This sculpture by Věra Lišková was made by heating glass tubes, inflating and manipulating the hot glass over a torch to create the individual spiky elements, and then sealing the elements to one another with a torch.
Věra Lišková was a talented designer who pioneered the use of borosilicate glass for sculpture. Traditionally, borosilicate glass is used for figurines that are fashioned by artists using a small torch.
In the late 1960s, Lišková began to make abstract sculptures and sculptures of animals in glass that, over the years, gradually increased in size.
Anthem of Joy was the most ambitious work of Lišková’s long career. Inspired by the form of musical notes, the sculpture communicates the emotion and energy of harmonious sound."
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Pyrex, every day for the next 100 days I will be sharing my favorite Pyrex images and memorabilia. Today's piece is the rare and hard to find tan starburst space saver.
Just South of Watkins Glen in Corning, NY, is the home of the Corning Musuem of Glass. A beautiful collection of glass and art. Be sure to check them out at www.cmog.org/ You are welcome to share. www.lancerogersphotos.com www.instagram.com/lancerogersphotos #Corning, #CorningGlass, #Glass, #Art,
from the
Corning Museum of Glass website,
I quote:
Glass Sticks
by Jun Kaneko
(Japanese, b. 1942)
United States, Portland, Oregon 2001
Kiln-formed glass, cut, assembled
H: 200 cm, W: 106.6 cm, D: 106.6 cm
"Although his primary material is clay, the sculptor Jun Kaneko was invited in 1998 to do an artist residency at Bullseye Glass Company in Oregon. It was during this residency that Glass Sticks was conceived; the work was completed in 2001.
Glass Sticks is a study in material, and the most distinctive quality of this material—glass—is its transparency. Unlike ceramics, which are often opaque and solid, glass allows color and light to pass through its mass. This sculpture is formed of 104 stacked glass bars, 26 on each side. Each bar consists of up to 10 layers of colorless and red glass that were fused in several firings. After cooling, the bars were cut, ground, and polished. The colored layers of glass are on the bottom, fading to transparent at the top."
Astoria, Oregon.
Solarization of Glass
Many glassmakers through the centuries have attempted to produce clear, colorless glass. Impurities, especially iron oxide, in the batch ingredients that were melted to make the glass often resulted in glass that was greenish instead of the desired "water clear."
An interesting characteristic of colorless glasses which contain manganese dioxide as a decolorizer is their tendency to turn different shades of purple when exposed to the rays of the sun or to other ultra-violet sources. It is a photochemical phenomenon that is not yet perfectly understood. It is generally accepted that the ultra-violet light initiates an electron exchange between the manganese and iron ions. This changes the manganese compound into a form that causes the glass to turn purple.
It was in the mid 19th century that manganese dioxide, popularly called "glassmaker's soap," began to be used by American glass manufacturers as a decolorizer. By including a small amount of this ingredient in the melt, they could produce glass that appeared virtually colorless. An 1899 publication by Benjamin Biser remarked,
The especial use of manganese in glass is to mask or neutralize the greenish color imparted to the glass by the protoxide of iron. Manganese imparts to glass a pink or red tint, which being complementary to green, neutralizes the color and permits the glass to transmit white light. Pellat refuted this theory, and claimed that the green tint of iron was not neutralized by the pink of manganese, and thus subduing it; but by the iron taking another charge of oxygen from the manganese and becoming per-oxide of iron, and producing a reddish yellow tint, while the protoxide produces a green tint.
Glass scientists today generally agree with Apsley Pellat, explaining that an ion exchange between the iron and the manganese molecules changes the observed color of the glass.
This process is sometimes reversible by gently heating the glass to about 200°C.
In the early 20th century, changes in manufacturing processes, as well as more pure batch materials, dictated different ways to decolorize glass, and the use of manganese oxide for this purpose dwindled.
From my archives:
Seen at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. I'm not sure what this piece is called since I forgot to take a picture of its description. :)
From my archives:
Seen at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. I'm not sure what this piece is called since I forgot to take a picture of its description. :)
Just South of Watkins Glen in Corning, NY, is the home of the Corning Musuem of Glass. A beautiful collection of glass and art. Be sure to check them out at www.cmog.org/ You are welcome to share. www.lancerogersphotos.com www.instagram.com/lancerogersphotos #Corning, #CorningGlass, #Glass, #Art,