Talking about the Relationship between "Glass Art" and "Art Glass"

Is "art glass" and "glass art" the same concept? The explanations at home and abroad are different. What is glass art and what is art glass?

According to relevant domestic data, the definitions of "art glass" and "glass art" are as follows:

"Glass art" is defined as follows: glass art, which takes "art" as the main body, "glass" as the carrier, and glass visual art as the carrier of creative methods and methods, can be called "glass art". Glass art is spiritual and intangible. There are also data that show that glass art is unique, purely handmade, and comes from the hands of artists.

"Art glass" takes "glass" as the main body and "art" as the connotation. After combining various processing technologies with glass, glass products or home decor glassware with unique shape and beautiful appearance can be called. "Art glass". Art glass is material and tangible. Art glass works can be produced in large quantities as commodities and can be reproduced indefinitely. In a broad sense, artistic glass is processed on glass materials through artistic means. Now, the term "artistic glass" is widely used in architectural decoration, glass decoration and crystal decoration in industry and society. Artistic expression forms include laser carving, casting, blow molding, painting, color polycrystal, opal, concave montage, physical storm ice, emulsified sand, hot melt, patch, etc.

However, according to a large number of relevant foreign materials, the single definitions of "glass art" and "art glass" are not defined separately, but they are usually classified as glass art categories:

Glass art and glass sculpture use glass as an art form to create sculptures or two-dimensional works of art. Specific measures include colored glass, glass wire drawing, glass casting, glass hot melting, especially glass blowing. As the carrier of decoration and function, glass art has been widely developed and disseminated. Glass art originated in Egypt. The Phoenicians invented the glass blowing method, which was later widely used in the stained-glass windows of European cathedrals. It has been used as the symbolic decoration of the church until the first peak of the perfect combination of glass art and artistic glass.

Before the early 1960s, "glass art" meant decorative objects made of glass. At that time, the most famous KostaBoda Company in Sweden, Royal Litterdam Crystal Company in the Netherlands, Hoya Crystal Company in Japan, Galle Company in France and Steuben Company in the United States all employed workers in the factory and divided the workers into groups of four or more. Glass blowing method. After the artistic glass movement in the early 19th century, mechanical blowing technology completely replaced factory manual blowing technology in glass production.

Art glass is more and more popular because of its unique crystal clear, elegant and fresh, and the perfect combination of artistry and practicality. Whether glass is used to make practical items or accessories, whether in the West or the East, it has its own development process and value. In many places, glass has always been a symbol of wealth and power. The artistic glass processed by modern technology has created colorful decorative effects for people's living environment. It has become a high-grade and fashionable decorative material and is widely used throughout the country.

Glass art design permeates people's life with unprecedented depth and breadth. The use of different types of glass and craft in modeling has become a unique medium for artists and designers to create art.

In a word, "glass art" is different from "art glass". Production process and production method are both continuous and developmental and have irreplaceable status in their respective fields. In the development of glass art, both are indispensable, but they must not be confused.