Comments on: Blaschka

Blaschka

misteraitch — Sun, 09 May 2004 00:14:49 -0800

In the late 19th Century, Dresden-based glass-artist Leopold Blaschka, together with his son, Rudolf, made scores of beautiful and intricate glass models of marine invertebrates. [First link via an e-mail from Alex Vaughan.]

By: Hypharse

Hypharse — Sun, 09 May 2004 00:59:57 -0800

I heard about these in passing a few weeks ago, and it's great to actually see pictures and read about them in detail. Absolutely mind-blowing.

By: kavasa

kavasa — Sun, 09 May 2004 08:47:42 -0800

This is really great, thanks for linking it. It might even get a great big comment thread full of asthetes arguing about What Is Art. ;)

By: kavasa

kavasa — Sun, 09 May 2004 08:50:00 -0800

And [b]ironically enough[/b], the gallery on homepage.mac doesn't work in Opera but [i]does[/i] work in IE. Thanks, Apple!

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sun, 09 May 2004 08:53:40 -0800

thanks, misteraitch - you always find cool, interesting things.

By: carter

carter — Sun, 09 May 2004 10:37:48 -0800

Those are both lovely and fascinating; thanks!

By: jearbear

jearbear — Sun, 09 May 2004 10:53:01 -0800

Oh, if only I had billions of dollars to collect these...so wonderful. After visiting Harvard's collection of glass flowers and insects, I'm pleased to see my favorite marine inverts.

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Sun, 09 May 2004 11:09:30 -0800

Harvard's collection of glass flowers These are also the work of the Blaschkas: glass flowers (official Harvard page here, but not currently loading)

By: roboto

roboto — Sun, 09 May 2004 15:19:39 -0800

At first, Pritchard drew only as long as he could hold his breath, diving and surfacing repeatedly, but later he used a dive helmet, the air pumped from the surface. Curiously, many of the resulting paintings and drawings had a "dry" look. A remark he made is pertinent here: "There is no feeling of wetness when one is below the surface." [endnote 4] Wetness is given to us by visual cues-drops of water, irregularities of sheen--that can't exist beneath the waves. This meshes with my own diving experiences. And when glass is immersed in water, it does not have a wet look. cool observation

By: lobakgo

lobakgo — Sun, 09 May 2004 19:10:24 -0800

Just amazing! Thanks, misteraitch.

By: chrid

chrid — Mon, 10 May 2004 01:29:29 -0800

Stunning!