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Treating Glass as a Canvas
The right glass can add fantastic color fidelity to decorative treatments.
By Vitro Architectural Glass | October 27, 2021
In the world of fine art, a master painter begins with canvas selection. A linen canvas is nearly always selected over cotton because nothing delivers the artist’s authentic vision quite like linen.
Similarly, with glass.
While it’s true glass manufacturers have made remarkable strides in recent years across a broad front, including energy efficiency, there remains major divisions in the way glass manufacturers approach clarity and light transmission.
We’re talking, of course, about conventional clear glass and low-iron glass.
Less Green, More Clarity
The metaphor of cotton and linen canvas is apt in glass conversations. As good as today’s conventional “clear” glass is, it falls significantly short of low-iron glass’s highest potential clarity (87 percent less green tint) and generous 91 VLT (visible light transmission) rating.
In fact, there is no industry standard specification criteria for “clear” glass, the clarity of which can vary broadly between batches and manufacturers.
Small wonder low-iron glass is the glass of choice for interiors and exteriors across a wide array of iconic structures, including the Amazon Spheres, Bullitt Center, Fallingwater, Calgary Central Library, UCSD Jacobs Medical Center, among many other projects worldwide.
Extreme Neutrality as Aesthetic
Historically, the purest low-iron glasses have been prized for their ability to step away from the limelight (literally, as it turns out) and showcase daylight and exterior views. “The clarity of the glass allows for it to appear invisible, a feature [Frank Lloyd] Wright admired,” explains Scott W. Perkins, director of preservation and collections for Fallingwater. Wright specified one of the industry’s pioneering low-iron glasses in his original specification for his iconic house.
However, the extreme neutrality of low-iron glass is increasingly in demand for decorative interior design applications. Its minimal green and pure clarity provides a truly neutral substrate for dynamic patterns, colorful designs and more.
Bernard Lax agrees. Lax, founder and head of Pulp Studio, a widely respected fabricator of decorative glass, says his team always specifies low-iron glass “… for projects where the aesthetic is the driving force to maintain color neutrality.”
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This petite oil painting is full of drama and color, the composition focusing on the long shadows of the clustered oak trees. The mosaic, impasto style of painting creates a stained glass effect on the canvas.
This painting was done on 3/4″-deep stretched canvas. It has been framed in a classic plein air frame and arrives wired and ready to hang.
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This petite oil painting is full of drama and color, the composition focusing on the long shadows of the clustered oak trees. The mosaic, impasto style of painting creates a stained glass effect on the canvas.
This painting was done on 3/4″-deep stretched canvas. It has been framed in a classic plein air frame and arrives wired and ready to hang.
Title: “Stained Glass”
Year Created: 2016
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original Painting Size: 12 x 12 in
Style: “Open Impressionism” is a new style of painting developed by American artist Erin Hanson. The style is characterized by short, impasto brush strokes that are applied without layering, creating a mosaic or stained-glass appearance to the paintings. The paintings are created with a limited pallette of colors, applied without blending or mixing upon the canvas, which adds a dimension of texture to each brush stroke. Inspired by classic impressionism, pointillism, and post-impressionism, Erin Hanson continues the tradition of impressionism into the modern day with her colorful and vivacious landscape paintings.
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Making giclees obsolete with the greatest technological leap since the colored printer, Erin Hanson’s 3D Textured Replicas are the next best thing to an original painting. Erin Hanson’s 3D Textured Replicas are almost indistinguishable from the original painting from a few feet away, capturing the texture of every brushstroke, every weave of the canvas, and the vibrant colors of the original oil painting.
Erin spent three years developing the technology of 3D art printing in a quest to create a fine art print that not only captured her vibrant colors but also reproduced the texture that is so important to her work. Erin Hanson’s 3D Textured Replicas are the most realistic artwork reproductions available today. Every detail of an original oil painting, down to the individual ridges of each brushstroke and the canvas texture itself, is reproduced in these Replicas. The beautifully saturated colors are varnished for added UV protection.
Limited Edition: The Limited Edition 3D Textured Replica is limited to an edition of 100. Once we have printed 100 replicas of this painting, we won’t print any more. We offer Limited Edition 3D Textured Replicas in the same size as the original oil painting (as well as a few other options, both 20% larger and 20% smaller than the original’s size.) We offer Limited Edition 3D Textured Replicas with the same luxury framing options we use for Erin’s original oil paintings. Erin Hanson personally hand-signs and numbers each limited edition replica in gold enamel, and there is a Certificate of Authenticity attached to the back.
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