3162) Glass Art, Belgium: Bpost (Belgium Post) has issued a postage stamp featuring national and international artists working in a variety of styles: Date of Stamp issue: 22.01.2024:
What is Glass Art?:
Glass Art refers to individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass.
It ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces to wall hangings and windows, to works of art made in studios and factories, including glass jewelry and tableware.
As a decorative and functional medium, glass was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria.
Glassblowing was invented in the 1st century BC, and featured heavily in Roman Glass, which was highly developed with forms such as the cage cup for a luxury market.
Builders of the Norman and Gothic cathedrals of Europe took the art of glass to new heights with the use of stained glass windows as a major architectural and decorative element.
Glass from Murano, in the Venetian Lagoon, (also known as Venetian glass) is the result of hundreds of years of refinement and invention. Murano is still held as the birthplace of modern glass art.
Apart from shaping the hot glass, the three main traditional decorative techniques used on formed pieces in recent centuries are enamelled glass, engraved glass and cut glass.
The first two are very ancient, but the third is a recent invention from around 1730.
From the late 19th century, a number of other techniques have been added.
The turn of the 19th century was the height of the old art glass movement while the factory glass blowers were being replaced by mechanical bottle blowing and continuous window glass.
Great ateliers like Tiffany, Lalique, Daum, Gallé, the Corning schools in upper New York state, and Steuben Glass Works took glass art to new levels.
Some of the earliest and most practical works of glass art were glass vessels.
Goblets and pitchers were popular as glassblowing developed as an art form.
Many early methods of etching, painting, and forming glass were honed on these vessels.
For instance, the millefiori technique dates back at least to Rome. More recently, lead glass or crystal glass were used to make vessels that rang like a bell when struck.
In the 20th century, mass-produced glass work including artistic glass vessels was sometimes known as "factory glass".
Starting in the Middle Ages, glass became more widely produced and used for windows in buildings. Stained glass became common for windows in cathedrals and grand civic buildings.
The invention of plate glass and the Bessemer process allowed for glass to be used in larger segments, to support more structural loads, and to be produced at larger scales.
A striking example of this was the Crystal Palace in 1851, one of the first buildings to use glass as a primary structural material.
In the 20th century, glass became used for tables and shelves, for internal walls, and even for floors. (we have a glass dining table in out residence).
Some of the best-known glass sculptures are statuesque or monumental works created by artists Livio Seguso, Karen LaMonte, and Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová.
Another example is René Roubícek's "Object" (1960), a blown and hot-worked piece of 52.2 cm (20.6 in) shown at the "Design in an Age of Adversity" Exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass in 2005.
In 2021, the artist Guillaume Bottazzi created a three-metre high glass sculpture on the “Domaine des Diamants Blancs”, in the extension of the Mallet-Stevens Garden which adjoins the Villa Cavrois.
The Stamp:
Glass is versatile when it comes to glass art.
The stamp issue is titled - 'VERRASSENDE GLASKUNST SURPRENANT ART DU VERRE" and features both national and international artists working in a variety of styles. © Charleroi, Musée du Verre/photo Myriam Louyest.
Special effect:
Addition of a printed transparent sheet giving the artwork on the sheet a glass effect. On the stamps there will be a varnish on the works of art.
Technical details:
Issue Date: 22.01.2024
Designer: Geert Wille
Printer: Stamps Production Belgium
Process: Offset
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