Doug Trott on thu 1 sep 11
I tried my hand at glass-blowing for a year, and only stopped because I
moved away from the studio. Heat in glass is somewhat analogous to moistur=
e
in clay, and it's even more difficult to center glass than clay!
But as an art form glass is definitely less advanced than ceramics. One ca=
n
make a glass object that is merely beautiful, with no hidden message or
meaning, and still be considered an artist.
Doug
http://www.prairie-garden.com
Starbuck, Minnesota
David Finkelnburg on tue 6 sep 11
Snail,
Funny, but I was having very similar thoughts this past week about th=
e
world moving on...thoughts provoked by the complaints about clay versus
glass. This scenario ran through my mind...
"Can you believe it, what that idiot, messed up, egotistical,
calls-himself-an-artist-Sumerian did with that mural of Ra? It just proves
one more time that only us Egyptian artists know how to properly render the
Sun God."
"Well, what do you expect? They don't have any decent art schools in
Sumer. What we do is right. If you ask me all they do is just make scratch
marks."
The very best sellers of all of my own work tend to be the new, totall=
y
unique to me, but successfully executed work. The new duds are judged as
what they are, but the good new stuff overshadows the old, and in my opinio=
n
equally decent, work. I think humans like fresh, new, and what's wrong with
that?
This doesn't mean I am going to abandon what I have learned to love
making, far from it. It's just a recognition that, as you say, the world
does move on...
All the best,
Dave Finkelnburg
http://www.mattanddaveslcays.com
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