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?
Recommended Citation
Oddy, Robert N., "Spontaneity in Stained Glass Work" (2011). School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship. 158.
https://surface.syr.edu/istpub/158
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Additional Information
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