Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany was born in New York City in 1848. Tiffany is known for not only being the son of Tiffany & Co. founder, Charles Tiffany, but as a notorious glassmaker, designer, and is also credited with being a leader of the Art Nouveau movement. Tiffany began his studies in Europe, and furthers his education at the National Academy of Design in New York with aspirations to become an artist. Painting was Tiffany’s primary interest, however, he began to focus on decorative arts and interiors in the 1870s. Stemming from his father’s jewelry business, Tiffany decided to pursue his own business ventures and began his career in 1875. At first, Tiffany began working with stained glass and later founded a glass-making company in 1878 with several colleagues. Tensions between Tiffany and his colleagues contributed to the creation of an independent firm founded by Tiffany, which became known as “Tiffany Studios.” Tiffany became a renowned leader in glass production after his creation of…

Louis Comfort Tiffany was the most important and influential American glass artist of the twentieth century. His renowned body of glass works redefined modern glassmaking and has continued to influence glass artists in the present day. His works have become an essential and crucial benchmark for American glassmaking. Tiffany concentrated intensely on creating brilliant, high-quality works, and courageously reformed the glassmaking industry of the United States and the world over. From a young…

Paper Two Louis Comfort Tiffany, born in 1848, was a famous American artist who specialized in glass making. In the beginning of Tiffany’s art career, he studied under American painters George Inness and Samuel Colman (Encyclopedia Britannica). Tiffany also went overseas to continue looking at art in different countries, including Europe and Morocco, to help expand his knowledge in various art forms (Biography.com). Once he returned back to the U.S., Tiffany became a well recognized painter.…

similarities to the other Renaissance revival styles of period. In addition to being the “first major poured-in-place concrete building in the United States,” Ponce de Leon Hall was also “one of the nation’s first electrified buildings,” using the industrial innovations of the “Edison Electric Company [to power] the building” (Horn). The architecture “revealed the aesthetic and technical potentials of modern concrete construction” while also “[recalling] historic coquina-based” techniques and…

Before I went to watch glassblowing, I thought that it was just a hobby and it would be almost impossible to make a living off of it. Upon arrival to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, I realized that this art form has artists that are both doing this for a living and doing this for a hobby. Glassblowing is an art that everyone should know about but many people have never actually witnessed it. I had the honor of observing and interviewing Lino Tagliapietra, who is considered by most to be the…

I walk in, surrounded by millions of dollars and tens of thousands of hours worth of glass. Roughly sixty-thousand pieces, each hand crafted by a crew of students and professionals working together, tell a story. Sixty panels of vibrant colors, sloshes of visual food that appeal to our creative stomachs, lurching the eyes of any passing viewer, including myself, forward into a land of distant time and space and beauty. The Roots of Knowledge, located inside the Utah Valley University library has…

Tiffany was boiling the kettle in the middle of the table like you would in chemistry class and she poured marjoram in the measuring cup and poured it in. It turned blue when she threw in the eye of newt and made a sound. She looked up at me as I approached. “So, where is the toad?” She asked searching me with her gaze to find it. I smiled and thought to myself she was going to love this/ “We have to go outside in the garden and catch one” I told her and she gave me a wide eyed look I…

to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books” (“Letters to the Children of Troy”). Libraries customarily serve as providers of vast arrays of knowledge, provoking introspection and musing enabling the creation of original notions serving as a haven for independent thought, but also as an area to exchange knowledge. In the case of the J. Murrey Atkins Library—explicitly the…

Comfort Theory, developed by Katharine Kolcaba, proclaims that providing comfort interventions a holistic approach can lead to positive outcomes, health seeking behaviors, and improved health-care delivery system. Comfort can be difficult to define and subjective to every person. However, Kolbaca used other theories to propose three types of comfort: relief, ease, and transcendence. Relief comes when a specific comfort is met, while ease is a state of calm or contentment. Transcendence occurs…

“military comfort women” during World War Two when Korea was under Japanese rule. In fact, a ‘comfort woman’ is an inappropriate word for the female victims; a ‘sex slave’ is the correct term. Although the sex slave is the right term, people use the ‘comfort women’ because it is well known by many people and sounds smoother than the sex slave. When Korea was under Japanese rule,…