| Art glass usually refers to the modern
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| | prolific artists as Dale Chihuly and
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| art glass movement in which individual
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| | Dante Marioni. Lino Tagliapietraa was
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| artists work alone or with colleagues,
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| | the first Murano-trained artist to leave
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| creating works from molten glass in
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| | and spread his knowledge in the United
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| relatively small furnaces of a few
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| | States.
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| hundred pounds of glass. It began in the
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| | Philip Johnson's Glass House may be one
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| early 1960s and showed an incremental
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| | of the least functional homes on the
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| growth through the end of the century.
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| | planet but on an architectural scale, it
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| The glass objects created are not
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| | is one of the most beautiful. All the
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| primarily utilitarian. From a creative
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| | exterior walls are glass, with the
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| perspective, they have to make an
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| | surrounding vegetation as audience.
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| artistic statement. Their market value
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| | Johnson did not see the house so much as
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| depends on the work and the artist
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| | a stage... but as a statement. The
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| involved, and prices range from a few
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| | inspiration and basic concept for
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| hundred to tens of thousands of dollars.
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| | Johnson's glass house came from Mies van
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| The best known of the modern glass
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| | der Rohe, who was designing the
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| artists is Dale Chihuly. In 1971, he
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| | glass-and-steel Farnsworth House during
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| began the Pilchuck School of Glass near
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| | this period. Also surrounded by a green
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| Stanwood, Washington, which is a source
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| | landscape, the house stands utterly
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| of a great deal of the current American
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| | transparent with its glass-enclosed
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| Studio Glass movement.
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| | living space and porch. On a conceptual
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| In an art glass studio, "production
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| | level, the house is the perfect
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| work" (goblets, vases, pitchers, art
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| | expression of International Style. Both
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| marbles etc.) show more hand worked
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| | houses are simple in structure but it is
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| variation than was allowed in a pure
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| | the use of glass as the main material,
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| factory work environment, and each piece
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| | which makes these houses highly
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| shows some of the lead glass worker's
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| | significant in the world of architecture.
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| creativity. In addition to smaller
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| production pieces, the studio glass
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| | Fritography is the art of using crushed
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| workers also try to turn out larger
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| | glass pieces ("frits") and coloured glass
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| individual pieces, which might be the
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| | powders to create fused glass artwork.
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| equivalent of a work of genius in the
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| | Artists assemble the frits into patterns
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| journeyman system of guild and factory
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| | that can be highly detailed, and even
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| work.
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| | photo-realistic, and then fuse the works
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| Glass Blowing might be an ancient art
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| | in a kiln. Seattle artist, Michael
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| but there has been a resurgence in the
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| | Dupille, pioneered the process. This
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| relatively recent "studio glass movement"
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| | glass artist works in Seattle,
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| which began in 1962. Harvey Littleton, a
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| | Washington. While he has worked in
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| ceramics professor, and Dominick Labino,
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| | numerous media, he is widely regarded as
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| a chemist and engineer, held two
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| | a pioneer in the technique of
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| workshops at the Toledo Museum of Art,
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| | fritography, or kiln-fused glasswork. His
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| during which they began experimenting
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| | public work is on display throughout the
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| with melting glass in a small furnace and
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| | United States, including a major
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| creating blown glass art. Littleton and
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| | installation in New York City's Wall
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| Labino were the first to make molten
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| | Street Park.Through the centuries, glass
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| glass available to artists working in
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| | has changed its function and form. A
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| private studios. This approach to glass
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| | company that has consistently stayed on
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| blowing blossomed into a worldwide
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| | the cutting edge of glassmaking is
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| movement, producing such flamboyant and
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| | Pilkington glass.
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