Chihuly Garden and Glass, Seattle
Glass is an interesting material but is something that is taken for granted for its ubiquity. It can be shaped into something organic looking but at the same time exhibit shapes and colors that are not found in nature. It was taught, in my chemistry class, that it's not actually solid but a super-viscous liquid that is resistant to flow . It's has been around for hundreds of years, and its properties enabled artisans and glassblowers to fashion it into useful objects, like goblets and jewelry, some of which ended up in museums years later. One of the main exhibition area One of the most fascinating use of glass as objet d'art that I saw was in Harvard Museum, when it was fashioned into life-like representations of plants and flowers , but those were created for scientific use as much as for art. There was a movement in art that uses glass as an artistic medium and not as something functional, like the stained glass windows of medieval ...