Thu 13 Nov 2008
Created in the late 1800s and early 1900s by Leopold (father) and Rudolph (son) Blaschka. They are amazingly realistic and beautiful pieces of work. I hesitate to call them art, only because they are intended to be neutral – an as accurate as possible representation of the subject – but they are certainly and example of craftsmanship of the first water.
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Again – apologies for the quality of some of the pictures. Next time I visit the museum I’ll do a better job, I promise (Brian – thanks for the suggestion).
November 14th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Not Art as you say but used by Christopher Williams, an LA artist to make art. His piece Angola to Vietnam is made up of photographs (exquisite) of flowers representing those countries considered most guilty of human rights abuses. A complex series of ideas intertwined around the ‘objective’ information of the glass sculptures.
http://moca-la.org/museum/artwork_detail.php?isPermSearch=1&id=111&sname=Christopher+Williams&sletter=8
December 11th, 2008 at 2:54 am
After triffids, pitchers are just about my faves. Nice pics thanks squire. That embeddable slideshow is cool: hadn’t seen it on a blog before, I think. Or I don’t look.
btw, did you see the recent trunks/roots post on bib just by the by?
December 11th, 2008 at 9:08 am
I did see the trunks/roots post and loved it. Made me think of this pic – there were lots of cross-sections in the glass flower collection, but this is the lone shot I took that wasn’t crap.
On a related ‘Bib is everywhere’ note – was disassembling a pomegranate last night and flashed on a more recent post. No surprise that pomegranates = fertility.
December 12th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Great pic for sure.
‘Bib is everywhere’
Ha! At least I didn’t embed a link! I try for the more subtle forms of SEO link whoring: good content (hopefully).
Must admit I’ve never tried pomegranate, although I’ve seen the juice in Asia in the past. Should it ever come to pass that I’m contemplating procreation I’ll have to give a try.
Cheers!