Stained glass

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. In 1875 Tiffany first began experimenting with stained glass, which led to him…

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…

During the first century B.C., the Phoenicians invented glass blowing "in the vicinity of the Palestinian coast" (History of Glass). Used for jewelry, decorative pieces, or vessels, blown glass has been a significant type of glass, having been practiced by numerous cultures across the world. However, glass blowing is a tedious task, requiring "extreme patience, tenacity, and dexterity" and is a long, multi-step process (Sacramento Art Glass). Over time, the difficulty of these numerous steps has…

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 greatest living glass blower in the world. He changed the history of glass blowing and impacted people's styles that…

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…

of the apartment overlooking the park is separated into squares and covered in old gum and the occasional chalk doodle. You go up and stand on the single black concrete step and look up at the black marble and the silver 126. You walk in the clear glass door and walk onto the faded tile floor that goes from the bottom of the few lonely stairs through the next door and to the elevator. You feel the cold from the faded brass handrail and walk up the stairs to the buzzer with a list of all the…

Observation Summary I enter room 105 which is a three year old room, I took a seat near the corner of the room, next I begin my observation I observe a teacher and three children playing with some small beads and strings, the teachers being to introduce the beads to the children, she engaged them in a conversation about the different color beads and the different sizes of the beads as well as the shapes of the beads, she looked over and notice one child who was stringing the beads and said,…

gives you the opportunity to change the type of material used on the slats. For instance, one can change the slats from glass to wood to aluminum or whichever material one desires. These types of windows are easier to change the appearance than full pane type. Jalousie windows cannot be opened from outside once closed. Jalousie windows can remain open during rains since the glass protrudes outside and prevent most of the water from getting inside the house. One can easily enjoy the storm breeze…

Did you know that over 50 Billion plastic water bottles are used each year by Americans alone. That’s over 150 times the population of America. Just sit and think how many water bottles that actually is, because it is easy to forget how big of a number that actually is. I think bottle flipping should be banned for three main reasons: It’s bad for the environment, the bottles get left everywhere, and It’s loud and annoying. First off, those 50 billion water bottles have to go somewhere and…

He said that when he was sent there, he forgot what he had done the grandmother said maybe it was a mistake that they sent him to the prison, he replied to her saying it was no mistake because they “had the papers on me” (26). When both men came back to the woods Bobby Lee was carrying Baileys shirt he tossed it the misfit and he put it on. The mother began to panic and breath hard the misfit seeing this asked the mother if her and her daughter would like to “step off yonder with Bobby Lee and…