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Artistically speaking, glass has been influenced by many historic periods, from mosaic works to the blowing technique to the creation of two-tone glass and then cameo glass.
Interest in glass as a material suited to creating real works of art was partly lost in the pre-industrial era, when the practical and industrial aspect of the material was more highly valued.
Art and design burst into glass production at the beginning of the 20th century. The combination of new techniques and a new decorative language brought radical changes into the glass industry and the applications most closely connected to it. This brought the technical innovations adopted by the American Louis Comfort Tiffany who created exquisite lamps with coloured glass encased in lead frames, followed by a variety of French processes adopted by the brothers Daum, Décorchemont and Argy-Rousseau, termed pâte-de-verre.
In this century of great cultural ferment, a trend developed to divide glass objects into two types: for luxury home decoration and for true works of art in which the artist chooses glass as a special means of expression. |
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