“Fire Orange Baskets” (2016) at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 2016.
"Baskets" were a turning point in #Chihuly's early career when he began to explore organic forms. "I wanted to concentrate on using the fire from the furnace, as well as centrifugal force and gravity. This meant letting glass find its own form, so that the pieces could appear very fragile and natural."—Chihuly © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #ChihulyBaskets #Gravity
“Black Basket Set with Chrome Yellow Lip Wraps” (2006).
“#Chihuly has mastered glass by yielding to it, by discovering and accepting what it is rather than deciding what it should be.”—Walter Darby Bannard, painter © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #Black #Baskets #ChihulyBaskets #Yellow #Chrome #WalterDarbyBannard #DarbyBannard #Painter
“Misty Citron Basket Set with Ebony Lip Wraps” (2015).
In February 2024, Leila Heller Gallery unveiled the gallery exhibition, “Chihuly: Four Decades of Iconic Work.” With a wide-ranging selection of pedestal pieces, large-scale installations, and two-dimensional artworks, this is #Chihuly’s first-ever exhibition in Dubai. © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #Basket #ChihulyBaskets #Citron #GlassArt #BlownGlass #Sculpture #Dubai #Gallery #LeilaHeller
"Black Basket with Moss Lip Wrap" (2006).
"The coloristic effects that #Chihuly has developed in contrasting black with brilliant high-intensity colors are exotic but not psychedelic. The varieties of black, from blue black to jet black to crimson black, are explored to yield effects that are more exquisite than brash, more luxurious than pop art."—Barbara Rose, art critic © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #ChihulyCylinders #ChihulySoftCylinders #Onyx
"Golden Celadon Basket Set with Ebony Lip Wraps" (2017).
With its soft, translucent shade of jade green, celadon is a prized ceramic glaze that has been used for 3,600 years, since the Shang Dynasty. #Chihuly has used this ancient color to infuse his works with a prismatic shade of green that metamorphoses as the light and the viewer's angle changes, with hues of amber, goldenrod, seafoam, and azure. © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #ChihulyBaskets #Celadon #Jade #Ceramics
“Golden Celadon Basket Set with Obsidian Lip Wraps” (2017).
“The urge to describe the ‘Baskets’ individually is hard to resist. One wants to spend time specifying…between the endless variations of exquisitely subtle ambers and caramels and beiges and between degrees of translucence and opacity.”—Linda Norden, curator, writer, and professor of art history © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #Baskets #Celedon #Caramel #Amber
“Black Basket Set with Aurora Orange Lip Wraps” (2006).
#Chihuly’s “Baskets” were an early breakthrough for the artist. Embracing fire, breath, gravity, and centrifugal force, he began to create work defined by irregular, slumping, asymmetrical forms. © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #ChihulyBaskets #Nature
“Black Basket Set with Olive Lip Wraps” (2008),
#Chihuly’s “Black” series explores contrast in the most dramatic terms possible. © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #Baskets #ChihulyBaskets #Black #Color #GlassArt #BlownGlass #Sculpture #Olive #Contrast
"40th Anniversary Basket Sets" (2018).
"Baskets" marked a creative breakthrough for #Chihuly when, in 1977, he began to embrace gravity to create the organic, asymmetrical forms that define his work. He commemorated the 40th anniversary of the series with a collection of new "Baskets," created during a special glassblowing session at Pilchuck Glass School in 2017 and 2018. © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #Anniversary #Pilchuck #ChihulyBaskets
"Merletto Basket Set" (2019).
Named for the Italian word for "lace," merletto is an ancient Venetian caneworking technique that gives the effect of delicate, net-like patterns suspended within glass. "Chihuly Merletto" features the same technique applied to his "Basket" series, reimagined to emphasize spontaneous energy and movement. © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #ChihulyBaskets #ChihulyMerletto #Venice
“Chihuly Baskets” and “Cylinders” with Northwest Native American baskets at Chihuly Garden and Glass
While the slumped forms of some Native American baskets capture the effects of gravity over time, the #Chihuly “Baskets” inspired by them freeze the effects of gravity during a single instant of heat and motion. © Chihuly Studio ____________________ #DaleChihuly #ChihulyGlass #Glass #GlassArt #Glassblowing #Art #FineArt #Baskets #ChihulyBaskets #ChihulyCylinders
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