Harvey Littleton Artful Home Analysis

2. INTRODUCTION The artist Harvey Littleton was a prolific glassblower and vitreographer. Originally he went to school to be a physicist like his father, but instead switched to industrial design (Artful Home). He finished his bachelors and went on to get a Masters of Fine Arts in ceramics and taught at the University of Wisconsin, After a couple years of experimenting with various mediums, he tried out glassblowing (Artful Home). He went on to teach multiple courses on the subject and create many great works of art. He also received great praise for his vitreographs as well. He began to work with vitreography in his studio with other various artists (Artful Home). So he was a physicist, then an industrial designer, a ceramicist, a professor, …show more content…
The piece is multifaceted and complex with multiple different shades of pinks, reds, and yellows. The piece is on white paper, with a pink box that has yellow panels coming out of the left and right sides. A pinkish-red sphere, that gets lighter both towards its center and towards the outside sits in the center. It has a faint white slit in the middle. The Pinkish sphere is enclosed in a large pink-shaded box. On both sides of the pink orb, sit two yellow orbs, one on each side. They sit partially under the pink orb. They are also half way into the pink …show more content…
It allows artists to make multiple extremely similar or in some cases the exact same pieces of art (Vitreography). Intaglio is a style of printmaking that involves filling a plate with the piece of art indented into it (Intaglio). Said plate is then filled with ink, or another liquid and placed onto a special board with grooves in it. A piece of paper is then pressed onto the inked plate (Intaglio). Pressure is then applied through the use of a weighted object (Intaglio). The weight then presses the image(s) into the paper. Both processes allow for multiple copies or versions to be made of the