It's basically a way of frosting small -
scale pieces of glass.
Not exact matches
Once you
scale up from the subatomic level, other factors disrupt transparency, like flaws in a uniform material — think
of bubbles in a
piece of glass.
Sculptural constructions by Richard Stankiewicz, Betye Saar, and Abe Ajay, a mobile by Alexander Calder, a large
glass piece by Dale Chihuly, and several large -
scale metal
pieces by Seymour Lipton — some
of which are currently on view in the Hamer Sculpture Garden — round out the museum's collection
of post-war sculpture.
The
piece consists
of a
scale replica
of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson's ship HMS Victory in a giant
glass bottle and commemorates the Battle
of Trafalgar.
While Gill's immense nine - metre decorative calico scroll may prompt the viewer to stand back to take in the
piece's extensive figures and patterns in their entirety, the minute
scale of Hutchinson's drawings in contrast require the microscopic detail be studied up close and with the aid
of a magnifying
glass.
The
piece consisted
of a
scale replica
of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson's ship HMS Victory, with sails made
of printed fabric in a colourful African pattern, in a giant
glass bottle and commemorated the Battle
of Trafalgar.
His
pieces are created through a method he developed himself: He reproduces images in thick oil paint on a
piece of glass, scrapes off the «oil skin» from the
glass when it's dry, and collages these
pieces over large -
scale canvases to create totally new art
pieces — proving,
of course, that there's more than one way to skin a canvas.