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25 Feb 15 - 01:07 PM (#3689777) Subject: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: olddude Last summer Denver had an outdoor exhibit of dale chihuly art glass. It was amazing, blew me Away. I been a fan for years and own a couple of pieces. His exhibit travels from state to state anyone seen it. |
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25 Feb 15 - 01:50 PM (#3689783) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: Don Firth Dale Chihuli is a local boy—Tacoma, Wash., just some thirty miles south of Seattle. I've seen a couple of television specials on him and his work, and I have seen an exhibit of his work. Don't own any, though. Spectacular, gorgeous stuff! Hauling molten glass out of the furnace and working it while it's still hot enough to be malleable looks like damned dangerous work. Maybe that accounts for the eye-patch…. Don Firth |
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25 Feb 15 - 02:19 PM (#3689786) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: olddude For sure I would love to watch him work |
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25 Feb 15 - 03:07 PM (#3689792) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: maeve Interesting video on his website of a current exhibition : http://www.chihuly.com/ Google has many gorgeous images, too. |
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25 Feb 15 - 03:14 PM (#3689793) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: Bee-dubya-ell I saw a Chihuly exhibit about twenty years ago and have been a fan ever since. The pieces were impressive enough, but the way they were exhibited was amazing. Not only is he a master glassmaker, but a master of how to use light and other presentation techniques to enhance the overall effect of the glass on the viewer. For example, one room at the show I saw had several roughly three foot diameter globes (what Chihuly calls "floats") resting in beds of of broken clear glass. But what really made the presentation was that the room had been painted entirely black and the only illumination was a spotlight on each of the globes. |
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25 Feb 15 - 04:01 PM (#3689818) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: olddude I have two of his sea forms amazing |
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25 Feb 15 - 04:33 PM (#3689824) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: GUEST,LynnT There are several Chihulies (is that the correct plural?) at the VA Museum of Fine Art in Richmond. I don't care much for the big indoor jellyfish-looking construction that hangs from the ceiling; it looks to me like someone strung up all the scrap from a month's production at Moreno, IT. However I love his bed of bright-red glass reeds set in a pond outside the window of the café -- they sway in the wind, change color as the day passes, and look more like wild grasses than the grasses do. Lynn |
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25 Feb 15 - 05:13 PM (#3689831) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: olddude Lynn Ru kidding say it ain't so, they are amazing |
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25 Feb 15 - 07:48 PM (#3689858) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: ChanteyLass I have seen his work at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. He taught at RISD for several years. The last time the museum opened a new wing it featured installations by Chihuly and some of his most notable former RISA students. |
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25 Feb 15 - 09:42 PM (#3689889) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: Bill D Oh, his stuff is amazing. Saw a display at Seattle airport 12-14 years ago... (I don't believe he has actually done any furnace work himself for years... but his helpers sure execute his ideas!) |
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25 Feb 15 - 10:00 PM (#3689893) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: Bee-dubya-ell Yes, Chihuly had to stop doing any of the actual furnace work when he lost one of his eyes. Lack of depth perception would make working with hot glass too dangerous. He paints his ideas in 2D and his crew executes them in glass. The exhibit I saw had a roomful of his design paintings. They're works of art in their own right. |
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25 Feb 15 - 10:29 PM (#3689896) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: Stilly River Sage Dale put "Pilchuck" on the map - though as a mountain and a river it has always been there for locals in Snohomish County. But the way people from outside the region pronounce it - oy! SRS |
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25 Feb 15 - 11:27 PM (#3689898) Subject: RE: BS: Any other fans of chihuly From: olddude He had a tent setup when he started at that site now I guess it is well established |