St. Michael's Old Cathedral, Coventry: Surviving Stained Glass & the Glass in Iceland. Stained glass coventry cathedral. "The Fish" John La'Farge. John La Farge - Bio. John La Farge is best known for his innovations in stained glass design during the late 19th century, but he also worked in a variety of other media throughout his career.
Born in New York in 1835, LaFarge received his first artistic training at the age of six and learned to use watercolors while still in grammar school. At the age of 24, after studying law for a time, La Farge went to Paris to study painting under Thomas Couture. While abroad, he discovered the work of the English Pre-Raphaelite painters Gabriel Dante Rossetti and John Everett Millais, whose idealized scenes and moralizing subjects he admired.
La Farge returned to the United States in 1859 and settled in Newport, Rhode Island to begin his career as an artist. There, La Farge studied with American romantic artist William Morris Hunt. An artist of broad cultural interests, La Farge traveled widely, and every visit abroad became an occasion for artistic inspiration. Ruth Patzloff, Painter. People worshiping Ruth Patzloff painting during worship Part 1 Stained glass by Marc Chagall When the voices blend they sound like angels I hope there’s some room still in the middle But when I lift my voice up now to reach them The range is too high way up in heaven So I hold my tongue, forget the song Tie my shoes, start walking off And try to just keep moving on With my broken heart and my absent God And I have no faith but it’s all I want To be loved, and believe In my soul, in my soul. – “Waste of Paint,” Bright Eyes "I and the Village" by Marc Chagall What are our souls like?
Twilight in Heaven: THE AMERICA WINDOWS BY MARC CHAGALL. “For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.
Stained glass has to be serious and passionate. It is something elevating and exhilarating. It has to live through the perception of light.”Marc Chagall I first came across Marc Chagall while working on an art project in the 12th grade and since then the work of this Russian-French artist has always absorbed me. His interrogation of life in the light of a refined, anxious, childlike sensibility, a slightly romantic temperament combining with a blend of sadness and gaiety was characteristic of a grave view towards life. The Geneva Window. Presented in conjunction with Me Jewel and Darlin' and the appearance of Harry Clarke's The Last Hour of the Night on O'Connell Street, The Geneva Window is an exhibition curated by Isobel Harbison presented at The LAB, Foley Street from 27th January to 26th February 2011.
Artists featured are Dara Birnbaum, Steven Claydon, Lewis Klahr, Mark Leckey and Elodie Pong. The Geneva Window Exhibition endnote and a curator’s introduction Isobel Harbison. Harry Clarke - Biography (1889 to 1931) was undoubtedly Ireland’s greatest stained glass artist. Internationally the name of Harry Clarke is synonymous with quality craftsmanship and imaginative genius in his stained glass work. Henry Patrick (Harry) Clarke, Ireland's most renowned stained-glass artist, was born in Dublin on March 17th, 1889.
His father, Joshua, arrived in Dublin from Leeds in 1877 and established a decorating business. The business, Joshua Clarke & Sons, later expanded to include a stained glass division. The young Harry grew up with a studio at the back of his home at 33 North Frederick Street. Front Free Endpaper: Harry Clarke and the Geneva Window. In 1926 Harry Clarke was known throughout the world as both a stained glass designer and a book illustrator.
No better choice then when the Irish Ministry of Industry and Commerce were looking for someone to design and produce a stained glass window to represent Ireland at the League of Nations in Geneva. The window had a difficult birth. There were delays in design and production. His original pencil draft was for a series of scenes from contemporary Irish literature in eight square panels of glass. But Clarke fell ill with TB and the panels were only just completed at the point when he had to be transported to the Swiss sanatorium where he eventually died. I'm fairly sure that this is the first appearence of these images on the Internet - which, to be honest, gives me a little frisson of pleasure!
Harry Clarke. Clarke was born in Dublin in 1889.
His father was a craftsman who produced, among other objects d'art, stained glass windows. Most of us know Clarke's work from his drawings which are all too often and all too unfairly compared to Beardsley, but it was as a stained glass designer and artisan that he devoted the most of his too-short life. He studied in his father's studio and for a short time in London.
In 1907 he was exposed to the works of Beardsley at the Irish International Exhibition, but was likewise entranced by the art of Rossetti, Annie French, E.J. Sullivan and others. His first entry to the Board of Education National Competition won the Gold Medal in the stained glass competition in 1910. The Rime, (at left) was intended for his first published work, but it wasn't to be. It's very important to pause here and realize that Clarke wasn't just illustrating books. The Arts and Crafts movement triggered a resurgence of Irish art. Another grand glass commission was The Eve of St. Efa9746ebe5b89c4c23eb954bb64fb65.jpg (JPEG Image, 570 × 965 pixels) 5a8c2209f5335b8335419d7ff7060c26.jpg (JPEG Image, 570 × 851 pixels) 9ae105d75aa9ef599cebae5865f86bc6.jpg (JPEG Image, 375 × 500 pixels) Fc5598bd827e6ba1f70289db7c64067f.jpg (JPEG Image, 600 × 600 pixels) 9ae105d75aa9ef599cebae5865f86bc6.jpg (JPEG Image, 375 × 500 pixels) 493079f95f07360af10844005cec52bf.jpg (JPEG Image, 570 × 738 pixels)
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