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. it is like water, although it is born in fire, visually light to the touch, solid, and it also sounds like the hands of a master transforming a shapeless mass into a work. art. art glass. it seems that this material will be fashionable at all times. and yulia burlo is with you, and this is a new release of the fashion for culture project. glassmaking or glass melting is one of the oldest technologies in material culture, but a relatively young industry. for a long time, the main technique for forming glass products was blowing. the molten mass is collected with the end of the long one.

tubes through which air from the master’s lungs is supplied into the glass portion , resulting in balls of different volumes, hollow inside, which can already be shaped, flattened, compressed and stretched. the master uses a special set of tools for molding the product, tongs or pliers, a smoothing iron, a bipod, a metal mower, wire cutters for cutting glass, scissors of various shapes, this is how the name of the profession of glass blower or master blower was established. the key point in this process is when a product is born from a burning mass; the craftsman has only a few seconds to shape it, otherwise the glass will harden or crack. in this action is the variability of matter and the value of the moment. glassmaking for the most part involves the production of utilitarian products, but certain... craftsmen

specialize exclusively in artistic glassmaking, artists create a variety of plastic types and forms of works: sculptures, decorative vessels, jewelry, souvenirs, dishes and many others. it is the blowing technology that allows you to create dishes of complex, unique shapes. currently, glassblowing art has emerged as an independent type of artistic creativity. at the same time, it remains a traditional folk style. creativity today has significantly increased the skill of glassblowers, and the development of the glass industry has led to represents the spread of interesting creative directions. lampwork is one of them. in translation, working with a lamp. the key tool is a gas burner, which heats the glass to 1,200°. the work uses so -called soft glass. the complexity of the product depends only on the skill of the author’s idea.

this is what gives the lampwork a special charm and the uniqueness of each product. the work often uses glass containing precious metals, silver and gold. and you can get unusual shades. thanks to mixing glass with different enamels. many people wonder how safe it is to wear glass jewelry? the experts assure that it is absolutely safe. if the technology is followed, the so-called stress is removed from the product, that is, it is annealed, then it turns out strong. over time, they do not peel off, do not change color or shape. now miniature lemfork products are gaining popularity. jewelry made from such glass beads can be modest. from one exquisite bead or voluminous, eye-catching necklaces, rings, beads, earrings, brooches, bracelets, miniature interior figurines. mechanization made glass one of the cheapest common materials, but artistic glassmaking came to a new heyday. for 140 years now

, the only enterprise with centuries-old glassmaking traditions has been operating in the republic of belarus, where manual production has been preserved and hereditary glass-making masters work . sharp engraving, etching and sandblasting, painting, enamel, decal, crackle and other types of decoration combine the harmony of beauty and grace, modern design with classic shapes. tourists from many countries specially come to belarus to purchase unique works of art, watch how masters blow glass, and visit a museum where products of incredible beauty are collected. in the halls of the museum, dated exhibits are displayed. 1910 and original compositions by contemporary artists, famous milky-smoky glass, noble rustal, exclusive souvenirs, gift sets, colored glass products. we’ll talk more about decorating methods and working with glass with

the leading artist of the neman glass factory, vasily samokhvalov. vasily dmitrievich, good afternoon, please tell us where we are, what is presented here. you are in a room that is secret in all glass factories in the world, this is a room where the work of artists is collected for a certain time, for a year or two, which is supposed to be launched in subsequent production, that is, this is the experimental base of the plant, where all new moves are being tested. developing new types of products, all factories in the world are hunting each other.

everything you see in stores is everything you you see in this room, the artists came up with and made a drawing, developed a form , after that they go to our magnificent, amazing masters, in the presence of the author, the artist, the master does what the artist intended, that is, it all starts with the artist, artists are specially educated people , each of our artists has 5 years of art school experience and 5 years of experience at the academy in the glass department...

all this is chemistry, because salt and various metals are used to color glass. what decorating methods do you use? decorating methods are endless, starting with the fact that you can dip glass in cold water, it will crack, blow it out, you get a pattern of cracks, you can dip it in colored glass chips, you get a color, you can do it in several crumbs, different colors, you can dip it in a grooved form and blow it up , you get corrugated glass, everything you can.

already decorating methods somehow go more to form, to the plasticity of form, since the history of glass goes back 400 years, and we know such phrases as ancient roman glass, roman glass or venetian glass, then we as a factory, to be honest, it is actually a craft factory, although we live in the 21st century craft, we even use venetian methods of decoration, and we use roman methods, the venetian method. of their glass, the venetian thread in glass was very cruelly reprimanded for taking it outside

of venice and so on, but our master in the workshop restored it, figured out how to do it, received the highest glass award in the whole world, and today we make dishes decorated with venetian, but today it is called neman thread, and new methods, not was invented a long time ago, but glass powder and glass chips went into mass production, and if previously it was necessary... for each color of glass to cook, set up a separate oven, today we buy glass powder, glass chips of an unlimited range of colors, we collected colorless glass in the oven, rolled in colored crumbs in any combination, heated it, inflated the product of any color, they say that the glass sounds, tell me what this means, why do you need to listen to the glass? listen, well , first of all, when you buy glass, you you can take glass and...

but this is the case with crystal, glass does not ring like that, but crystal rings because there is ok metal lead, it gives the same thing that rings in bells, the same thing in crystal. we are in a glass museum; usually the most unique exhibits go to museums. tell us, what is the pinnacle of glass making? you are in the museum of an industrial enterprise, the largest industrial enterprise, so in the museum we have not only the highest achievements of craftsmanship, but also what and how can be made from glass and crystal, by what methods, what is beautiful, what is not, well, ugly things we don’t put, well, in particular, the top...

in 1989 he received the title of best blower of the ussr, that’s all. what can you come up with that can be used to create glass products, for example, the author conceived a creative work on a historical theme, there is a concept of belarusian black-polished ceramics, ancient archaeological, here is a set of dishes in the style of belarusian black-polished ceramics, made of smoky glass, if we say about the fact that we have the most modern at the plant a small area of ​​​​in-tailoring, so to speak, where we take orders...

the idea, there are the wonderful hands of our magnificent craftsmen, and any creative ideas are embodied in the workshop in a hot state or in a cold state, as for crystal. crystal, what makes it special, is special for our production in that you can come up with a shape for the product, like this bowl of drink, this kind of leg, but since this crystal is cut into a pattern of a diamond edge , here are the patterns of cutting into...

here we come, in particular to the very, very products that we were only able to dig up and obtained from people more than a hundred years ago, here are two display cases you see... you see here what the factory made in the 1900s of the last century, and since we did not find blown products, they are thinner, they have not been preserved, in these display cases, these products, they were made on such primitive machines, today the factory also has similar machines, but they work on hydraulics, and

what they worked on 100 years ago was manual production, imagine this hellish labor... the norm of work 800 products per shift, the mold weighed about 50 kg, it is necessary it was 800 times to get the mold out, turn it over, put it back, cut it off, and so on , about 40 tons were turned over by a person per shift, despite the smoke, fumes, digging, terrible working conditions, it was arabic, it was very hard work, it was squeezed out like that this is glass, aesthetics, fragility, eternity: purity of form, soft contours, silky shades, elegance and grace, lyricism and sensuality, all this is visible, all that remains is to consider: complex works of art traditionally enjoy great spectator and collection interest. crystal production is considered the pinnacle

of glass craft. glass is like weightless splashes and hard edges, transparent as air and... filled with tight color, the possibilities for its creative interpretation are almost limitless. glass in art is an eternal wanderer. today we are convinced that the usual glass or bracelet is much more than a serving item or decoration. it teaches gentleness and trains reaction. and yulia burlo was with you, remember, being cultured is fashionable. see you in a week, see you again cultural meetings.

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