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Answer: Dichroic Glass is a multi layer coating placed on glass by using a highly technical vacuum deposition process. Quartz Crystal and Metal Oxides are Vaporized with an electron beam gun in an airless vacuum chamber and the vapor then floats upward and attaches then condenses on the surface of the glass in […]
Cathedral Glass: Transparent glass that is monochromatic with smooth or textured surfaces.
Stained Glass: Term used to describe any colored flat glass or any object made of such glass joined by metal strips. Originally, colored or clear flat glass cut to fit an artist’s design on which details were painted in pigment with a brush. The […]
Cathedral Glass: Glass sheets for manufacturing leaded glass windows and mosaics. Louis Comfort Tiffany maintained at least one cathedral glass shop in his glass-works, in which a dazzling variety of colors, textures and degrees of translucency was developed. In 1897 Cecilia Waern reported in The Studio that Tiffany maintained an available stock of 200 to […]
What is Postmodern Art? The answer can be misleadingly simple: Postmodernism, sometimes called Po-mo, is art after, or in contradiction to some aspect of Modernism.
So all Postmodernism means is that it was made later than the Modern phase? Actually no, most scholars agree that for some time during the 1970’s Modernism and Postmodernism existed simultaneously. […]
Color Bars: Bars of concentrated colored glass about 1” in diameter and a foot long. The glassblower cuts these in smaller chunks to melt, crush or overlay the softened bar over a bubble. MoG purchases color bars from Kuegler (Germany) and Gaffer (New Zealand). The glass is colored with different metal oxides, which are […]
