Document Type

Article

Date

7-1-2011

Keywords

Art, Stained glass, artwork.

Disciplines

Art and Design

Description/Abstract

Stained glass does not lend itself to spontaneity. We design, thinking always about how the glass will be cut and what glass will be available to us. Then, the fabrication is a very slow and meticulous process, requiring accuracy of cutting so that the pieces fit together closely – glass doesn’t bend, stretch or squash. We have to do too much careful planning, and too much engineering! How can we make our subjects come alive, with movement and energy, when we cannot use our bodies to express these things while we are doing the art?

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The downloadable article is the final manuscript of the article, Spontaneity in Stained Glass Work published in Glass Craftsman. All rights reserved to the author, Robert Oddy. The article is under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Licenses

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