Martin Janecký
Martin Janecký (born 29 February 1980, in Liberec) is a Czech glass artist who has also worked extensively in the United States. He creates glass sculptures by shaping the hot glass bubbles from the inside. He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Europe as well as in the United States. About Martin Janecký began working with glass at the age of thirteen at his father's factory in the Czech Republic. After graduating from the Glass School in Nový Bor he gained experiences in South Africa, Sweden, and the Netherlands. In 2003 Janecký made his first trip to the United States where he studied at the Pilchuck Glass School under Richard Royal and William Morris. Soon Janecký became an instructor at various glass programs all over the world, such as The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Craft, the Australian National University in Canberra, University of Toyama. In 2019 Janecký founded his own glass studio - Janec ...
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Glass Art
Glass art refers to individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass. It ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces to wall hangings and windows, to works of art made in studios and factories, including glass jewelry and tableware. As a decorative and functional medium, glass was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria. Glassblowing was perhaps invented in the 1st century BC, and featured heavily in Roman glass, which was highly developed with forms such as the cage cup for a luxury market. Islamic glass was the most sophisticated of the early Middle Ages. Then the builders of the great Norman and Gothic cathedrals of Europe took the art of glass to new heights with the use of stained glass windows as a major architectural and decorative element. Glass from Murano, in the Venetian Lagoon, (also known as Venetian glass) is the result of hundreds of years of refinement and invention. Murano is still held as the birthplace of modern glass ...
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