Carroña (Carrion), by Javier Perez, is an Murano glass sculpture installation located at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. This sculpture was created in 2011. It consists of taxidermied crows feasting on the remains of a shattered red chandelier made of glass. Carroña is a representational sculpture, meaning that it depicts objects that people can recognize from the everyday world. People can easily recognize the crows and the chandelier which are common objects in today’s world.
Being a Glass Blowing 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. The earliest time
The Hale Telescope Who has not ever, even if just for a brief moment, looked up at a dark but vividly lit starry night sky and wondered how far those seemingly little lights reach, and if that beauty goes on forever, or if it ends at some point. I believe this question has been pondered by mankind since our creation, and early astronomers are proof of this pondering. Telescopes began as a way for these early astronomers to chart the stars and planets and their movements as they searched for more
The glass blowing technique is an example. (Debate - Science, Architecture, and Technology) Glassmakers would melt glass, allow it to harden and cool in the origination tank. Then the glass pieces would be broken into chunks, and shipped to glassworkers. Glass workers would remelt the chunks at a lower temperature and create glass objects. Today, this technique has been modified, instead made by heating the glass to extreme temperatures and then blowing into
Rome that stained glass windows were first created and admired, being simple compositions of colored glass. It was between 1150 and 1500 that stained glass art reached its peak in Europe, where large, historiated windows were being created for cathedrals (Metmuseum.org, 2014). These windows were “illuminated visual sermons of biblical stories,” and greatly changed the way the congregation learned about religion (Reynolds, 2013, p. 3). It wasn’t until the late 1800s that stained glass artists began making
Repatriation is closely associated with art, history, and archaeology museums as previously stated. Museum professionals constantly debate repatriation, especially if their museum’s collection possesses foreign artifacts. Depending on proper recording keeping, a museum archive might not have an artifact’s entire provenance. Jack Green, the Deputy Director of Collections, Research, and Exhibitions at the Corning Museum of Glass and author of “Museum as Intermediaries in Repatriation, argued that: Most repatriation
There is evidence of glass making from as early as 4000 BC. Back then it was mostly used for the coating of stone beads. It was 1500 BC when the first hollow glass container was made. It was made by covering a sand core with a layer of molten glass. It was during the First Century BC that glass blowing became more common. At this time glass was high coloured due to the impurities of the raw materials that were used to make it. The first recorded colourless glass was made in First Century AD. The