joi, 9 ianuarie 2014

Object of the Week- Corning Museum of Glass

Object of the Week- Corning Museum of Glass

              It looks like an igloo or blocks of ice, but Bernard Dejonghe's sculpture Cercle (Circle) is made of glass  that has beeen formed by the intense heat of kiln. The artist cast clear glass and the chiseled the surface to create a wheathered look.
  Cercle (Circle) by   Bernard Dejonghe( French,b. 1942), France,Briancon,1995
  Cast optical glass,chiseled.
  Dimensions: Overal H: 30,0 cm; Diam: 60,0 cm
  Purchased with funds from The Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family.
  Colection of the Corning Museum of Glass,Corning,NY (97.3.72)

Source:http://www.cmog.org/artwork/cercle-circle
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