Style
How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract-Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something. Andy Warhol (1928? - 1987) U.S. artist and filmmaker, 1963.
Explanations
Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity. Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971) U.S. rock singer and songwriter. Referring to his exposing of himself on stage, which led to obscenity charges. They were later dropped.
Conservation
What have they done to the earth?... Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and did her, Struck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down. Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971) U.S. rock singer and songwriter.Song lyric. "When the Music's Over"
Entertainment
If they can take it for ten minutes, then play it for fifteen. That's our policy. Always leave them wanting less. Andy Warhol (1928? - 1987) U.S. artist and filmmaker.
Art
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions...Finally one lady friend asked the right question, "Well, what do you love most?" That's how I started painting money. Andy Warhol (1928? - 1987) U.S. artist and filmmaker. Manhattan Inc., "Andy Warhol Inc., Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Businessman"
Creativity
Those first songs I wrote, I was just taking notes at a fantastic rock concert that was going on inside my head. Attributed to Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971) U.S. rock singer and songwriter.
Acting and Actors
The only time I really open up is onstage. The mask of performing gives it to me, a place where I hide myself then I can reveal myself. Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971) U.S. rock singer and songwriter.
Stained Glass Contemporary
Twentieth-century architectural technology has once more opened walls of buildings to artists and glaziers all over the world. New opportunities have given rise to new inventions in the medium, such as dalle de verre, pieces of glass with chipped and faceted surfaces that are set into an epoxy resin or concrete. As in all ages since the Renaissance, many of →
Stained Glass 19th-Century Revivals
The circle of William Morris and the subsequent art nouveau movement brought new life to stained glass. Morris, the English poet, printer, idealist, and founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, passionately believed that the antidote to the evils of the Industrial Revolution was the return to the handcrafts of the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century). In the →
The Boston Tea Party Party
If you were around Boston in the 60's you will enjoy this, assuming you can remember what you were doing in those days. Thanks to a couple of people that still remember those days the Music Museum Of New England has come about, and a much deserved dedication to Boston Tea Party. For those who don't know - There →
Stained Glass Decline of the Art
While technical innovations in stained-glass manufacture were made in the 16th century, stained glass declined as an art form, in part due to the influence of the Reformation. The effect of different colors could be achieved on a single large piece of glass by an enameling technique, thus dispensing with the need to use individual small panels of color, which →
Stained Glass Late Gothic and Renaissance
Silver or yellow stain, a new color, was introduced into French stained glass in the early 14th century. It was made by applying a chloride of silver or silver nitrate and fixing it by heating at a low temperature. Popular from that time on, the color was used for crowns and halos and to add touches of gold. Intermediate tones →
Stained Glass Gothic
The style of the 13th century, the glorious age of French stained glass, shows affinities with contemporaneous manuscript illumination (see Illuminated Manuscripts). With the perfection of vaulting and the flying buttress, heavy load-bearing walls were eliminated to allow more and much larger windows in the church, which inspired a greater variety and perfection in stained glass. Rose windows—huge, circular multiform →
Stained Glass Romanesque
The Romanesque period (12th century), with its increase in massive newly built cathedrals, brought about the first flourishing of the art. The earliest extant Romanesque windows are five larger-than-life-sized standing Old Testament figures in the clerestory of Augsburg Cathedral, dated either 1050-1060 or 1100-1150. The center for stained glass, however, became the Île de France region around Paris. The windows →
Stained Glass Early European Stained Glass
European pictorial stained glass dates from Carolingian times (9th century), according to historical records. The earliest surviving fragments, depicting heads of Christ, were found at Lorsch Abbey in the Rhineland and in Wissembourg, Alsace (now France); experts date them variously from the 9th century to the 11th century.
Stained Glass – Books
The following is collection of books on Stained Glass. you can buy them online or in book store or ask for them at you local library.
Stained Glass Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) English poet.An elegy on the death of John Keats. Adonais
Stained Glass Paul Valéry
Having verse set to music is like looking at a painting through a stained glass window. Attributed to Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945) French poet and philosopher.
Stained Glass History
The technique of coloring glass was first known in Egypt and Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium bc. A thousand years later, clear colored glass objects were molded. By the 1st century ad, Roman glassmakers had mastered blown glass, which allowed vessels and thin transparent sheets to be made (see Roman Art and Architecture). Homes of the rich and even their →
Stained Glass Raymond Chandler
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959) U.S. novelist. Farewell, My Lovely
Stained Glass MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES
Two types of glass were used in Gothic stained glass—pot glass and flashed glass. Pot glass was of uniform color, which was achieved by adding oxides of iron (red), copper (green), or cobalt (blue) to the raw materials of glass, a transparent mixture of potash (later soda) and limestone. Flashed glass was made to prevent opaqueness by fusing a layer →
Stained Glass
Stained Glass, windows composed of small panels of dyed and painted glass, held in strips of cast lead and mounted in a metal framework. The art achieved its zenith in Gothic building, most notably in France from about 1130 to 1330.
Why Buy Original Art?
Why Buy Original Art? Copyright © 2007 Donna MacMillan You have certainly been busy either purchasing your new home or perhaps renovation or redecorating. You have painted your walls with just the right color to set the mood, picked and purchased fabulous furniture and window treatments and found the perfect flooring. But what is missing to turn this room into →
Art is a visual language
"Art is a visual language, that needs no verbal explanation. " Bob Orsillo - American Artist 2007
