Art glass normally means the modern art glass movement in which individual artists working alone or with a few assistants to create works from molten glass in relatively small furnaces of a few hundred pounds of glass. It began in the early 1960s and showed continued growth through the end of the century. The glass objects created are not primarily utilitarian but are intended to make a sculptural or decorative statement. On the market, their prices may range from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars (US). The best known of the moderns are Dale Chihuly, who uses many of the best independent glass workers to create his large and colorful works and Hans Godo Frabel, who creates his art together with a team of studio glass artists. Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colors as shown in this sphere from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany. ... Look up artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Dale Chihuly. ... Hans Godo Frabel Hans Godo Frabel (b. ...

Prior to the early 1960s, art glass would have referred to glass made for decorative use, usually by teams of factory workers, taking glass from furnaces with a thousand or more pounds of glass. This form of art glass, of which Tiffany and Steuben in the U.S.A., Gallé in France and Hoya Crystal in Japan and Kosta Boda in Sweden are perhaps the best known, grew out of the factory system in which all glass objects were hand or mold blown by teams of 4 or more men. In fact, the turn of the 19th Century was the height of the old art glass movement while the factory glass blowers were being replaced by mechanical bottle blowing and continuous window glass. In the factory, every member of the team does the same job repeatedly turning out dozens or hundreds of the same item in a days work. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 - January 17, 1933) was an American artist most famous for his Art Nouveau pieces in stained glass. ... Steuben Glass Works is an American art glass manufacturer, founded in the summer of 1903 by Fredrick C. Carder and Thomas G. Hawkes in Corning, New York. ... Émile Gallé in 1889 Émile Gallé (8 May 1846, Nancy – September 23, 1904, Nancy) was a French artist who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement. ... Quartz crystal In chemistry and mineralogy, a crystal is a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. ... Kosta Glasbruk (later known as Kosta Boda) is a Swedish glassworks founded by two foreign officers in Charles XIIs army, Anders Koskull and Georg Bogislaus Stael von Holstein, in 1742. ... Sculpting hot blown glas, glowing due to blackbody radiation. ...

In an art glass studio, ideally, "production work" (goblets, vases, pitchers, art marbles etc.) shows more hand worked variation than was allowed in pure factory work environment and each piece shows some of the lead glass worker's creativity, the gaffer. In addition to smaller production pieces, most studio glass workers also try to turn out larger individual pieces which might be the equivalent of a master piece in the journeyman system of guild and factory work. Russian chalice A chalice (from Latin calix, cup) is a goblet, intended to hold just drink. ... Art marbles are high quality collectable marbles arising out of the art glass movement. ...

See also

• Museum of Glass
• glassblowing
• glass art <- much more here
• caneworking

Bridge of Glass and glass blowing building The Museum of Glass is a museum dedicated to glass art located in Tacoma, Washington. ... Sculpting hot blown glas, glowing due to blackbody radiation. ... Glass ball made in Verrerie of Bréhat. ... Caneworking refers to a glassblowing technique that is used to add intricate patterns to vessels or other blown glass objects. ...

External links

• A comprehensive guide to art glass around the world

Glass Artists

• Dale Chihuly
• Dante Marioni
• James Nowak
• David Patchen
• Lino Tagliapietra, Italian master
• William Morris
• Jeremy Langford
• Libensky Brychtova
• Tim Tate