Dale Chihuly was born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife and son. He was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. He graduated in 1965, and enrolled in the first glass program in the country at University of Wisconsin. After graduating, he had continued his education at Rhode Island School of Design graduating with an M.F.A where he established a glass program and taught over a decade (“Learn More”). He works with a team to produce his phenomenal glass sculptures. He has work in over 200 museums worldwide. Chihuly enjoys working with glass because of the translucent materials that the light goes through. He likes to understand how the light passes through the …show more content…
Chihuly Garden and Glass. Glasshouse Sculpture. 2012. Blown Glass. 27 x 100 x 23', Seattle, Washington. This piece of Chihuly’s is in Seattle located next to the famous Space Needle. It is a structure suspended from the ceiling that portrays different flowers in different clusters. During the daylight it reminds me of upside down lily pads with the glass ceiling being the water on a sunny day. Chihuly Garden and Glass is a little more than 1.5 acres in the shadow of Seattle’s iconic Space Needle (Hemmings). The sheer scale and impact of the colors work best at first impressions (Hemmings). The media Chihuly is famous for is using the technique of glass blowing. The form is very loose and flowing like in an actual garden. The texture of the glass plates looks like leaves or floating flowers. Chihuly uses warm ambers, reds, and yellows for this piece. It contrasts nicely with the open glass background of the sky, or in the evening the light reflects nicely on the piece changing the values of the individual glass blown plates. Viewers enjoy the gardens and glass house in daylight, twilight and darkness (Hemmings). You can view the piece at different angles to get different effects. From looking straight up at the piece it looks ginormous. And looking form the outside the glass house looks like a big fish bowl with a beautiful structure inside. I think the specific piece is supposed to feel like an outdoor garden because of his other works that are outside the glass …show more content…
The shape is slightly different than the Macchia series that was created in the 1980’s. Its form is also organic and shaped like a bowl. The texture is smooth and round, and looks a bit reflective. He uses analogous colors with cool colors on the color wheel. Chihuly created different dots that have different values and your eye travels to each one around the basket sculpture. It sits nicely on a stand in the middle and can almost be symmetrical in shape. The Basket series is a series where the pieces aren’t huge but more so a large sized bowl or a centerpiece. He uses different colors in this piece like his Macchia
The house is surrounded by green grass which makes the image more realistic and the trees in the background and the tree in the foreground create a sense of depth. The image is quite well spaced out, due to a vast amount of area situated between objects. There is a visual equality in the symmetrical image. There is a contrast between the colours of the image to draw attention to the house. The image looks to be taken in the dusk of the afternoon, where there is not much natural light, which creates a darker tone. The main emphasis of the image is the house, which seems to be quite different when the image is first seen by a viewer. The texture helps emphasize the main focal point seeing though it is quite smooth, the colour also creates a mood towards the image and atmosphere in the image. The line helps develop structure due to the tone being a medium darkness. In some places (the area surrounding the house) is a degree lighter and shadows are present to help form the line throughout this part of the
His last and final piece, which is very interesting, is called the "Stoneware Vase*" It has two curled spiral handles, suggestive of ancient or pre-historic civilizat...
· 1999: Private commissions (2). Continues to work on paintings for traveling exhibition, Visual Poems of Human Experience (The Company of Art, Chronology 1999).
At the left-bottom corner of the painting, the viewer is presented with a rugged-orangish cliff and on top of it, two parallel dark green trees extending towards the sky. This section of the painting is mostly shadowed in darkness since the cliff is high, and the light is emanating from the background. A waterfall, seen originating from the far distant mountains, makes its way down into a patch of lime-green pasture, then fuses into a white lake, and finally becomes anew, a chaotic waterfall(rocks interfere its smooth passage), separating the latter cliff with a more distant cliff in the center. At the immediate bottom-center of the foreground appears a flat land which runs from the center and slowly ascends into a cliff as it travels to the right. Green bushes, rough orange rocks, and pine trees are scattered throughout this piece of land. Since this section of the painting is at a lower level as opposed to the left cliff, the light is more evidently being exposed around the edges of the land, rocks, and trees. Although the atmosphere of the landscape is a chilly one, highlights of a warm light make this scene seem to take place around the time of spring.
Dale Earnhardt grew up in automotive racing. Ever since he was a kid that is what his family did, and now his family carries on that legacy.
Boss, Richard J. Daley of Chicago written by Mike Royko depicts the life of Richard J. Daley and his career as the leading political influence in the city of Chicago. Considered by many as the last of the true “Bosses” Daley represented all that was considered machine politics. During his twenty-year reign as Mayor extensive urban expansion, political extortion, and a clear disregard for social justice characterize his administration. Royko clearly presents Daley’s performance as Mayor in an objective perspective identifying his accomplishments as well as his weaknesses. He provides the reader a record of Richard J. Daley the person, the politician, the Mayor and the corruption that plagued his political machine.
Saunders, A 2000, Modern Australian Architecture & the Meaning of Gardens, viewed 21 November 2011, .
The Steinhardt Conservatory is a $25 million complex holding BBG's extensive indoor collection in realistic environments that simulate a range of global habitats. The Tropical Pavilion, 65 feet high, re-creates a rain forest complete with a waterfall and streams. Flora from the Amazon Basin, African Rain Forest, and tropical eastern Asia thrive here. The Helen Mattin Warm Temperate Pavilion houses plants from central China, the Mediterranean, Australasia, southern Africa, and the western U.
When I entered through the main gallery entrance, the first thing that I noticed was this colorful glass sculpture in the middle of the room. I was in awe at how beautiful the sculpture was and the way how the light was reflected on the sculpture really emphasized the
There is, however, a slight opposition to this intense realism. It can be seen in Wood’s representation of foliage. The trees that appear in the upper left corner look like large green lollipops peeking over the roof of the house. The viewer knows that trees do not naturally look like that. Wood has depicted them as stylized and modern, similar to the trees seen is Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grand Jatte. After viewing other works by Wood, it is clear that he has adopted this representation for the trees in many of his paintings.
From the piece of artwork “Rain at the Auvers”. I can see roofs of houses that are tucked into a valley, trees hiding the town, black birds, clouds upon the horizon, hills, vegetation, a dark stormy sky and rain.
Terence Riley, Peter Reed, and Anthony Alofsin. Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994. Print.
Glass blowing as a career is really unique and creative. People can learn to make all sorts of crazy things and to use their own creativity to its fullest. Glassblowing is the art of shaping melted glass to make decorative objects. It is an area of concentration within the fine arts field at colleges and universities. Glass is an adaptable, old material that is still being explored and understood by everyone from artist to scientist even in this new age.
He is one of the most important American artists after World War II, and he changed the course of modern sculpture. Judd worked in New York in the 1960s and was one of the most important standards of "minimalism", but he actually rejected the name "minimalism" to represent the art, but in favor of the term "specific object". Although he shared many of the principles of minimalist art, such as the use of industrial materials to create and emphasize color, form, space and materials to complete the abstract works. He prefers to describe his work as "a simple expression of complex
The Glass Menagerie is set in the cramped, dinghy apartment of the Wingfield family. It is just one of many such apartments in this lower-class neighborhood. Not one of the Wingfield family members desires to live this apartment. Poverty is what traps them in their humble abode. The escape from this lifestyle, this apartment and these relationships is a significant theme throughout the play. These escapes may be related to the fire escape, the dance hall, the absent Mr. Wingfield and Tom's inevitable departure.