Video: Exquisite glass lace sculptures by Robert Mickelson
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Fragile, thin, graceful glass lace - this is exactly what the American artist Robert Mickelson devoted more than 30 years of his life. During this time, he achieved incredible skill in the art of blowing sculptures from glass, and today nothing is impossible for him. For this, the artist's works are highly valued all over the world What is curious, Mickelson does not have a specialized education: he dropped out of college after the first year, and went on free bread, getting a job as an apprentice to a glassblower, watching his work, helping as much as he could, and also in practice comprehending the basics of this art. However, this gave him only technique, and the artist's creative style was formed after a master class by the famous maestro Paul Stenkard. It was then that Robert Mickelson realized that his true vocation was to be a glass artist, and to create amazing things from this fragile and delicate material.
The artist's glass masterpieces are not difficult to recognize. Woven from thin, transparent tubular threads, they look like an openwork weaving, reminiscent of a cobweb, and are almost as fragile. Moreover, the artist makes openwork not only such cute and stylish sculptures as an umbrella, flowers, ballroom shoes, a slender tree or a slender girl, but also figures that are more brutal in meaning. For example, Mickelson's series of firearms looks just as defenseless and completely safe.
Numerous glass sculptures made by Robert Mickelson are exhibited in art galleries and exhibition halls not only in American but also in European museums of modern art. Check out these stunning pieces on the glass artist's website.
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