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  • Writer: Marina WitteMann
    Marina WitteMann
  • Nov 29, 2020
  • 2 min read

Updated: Nov 30, 2020


As a continuation of the analysis of the location of colour in three-dimensional space, I wanted to see how the paint would behave on a transparent plane. The most ambitious use of colour on glass is in stained glass. Because during the lack of electricity, daylight needed to go through. But now, I associate glass (if not talking about window), with the screen of a phone, TV or computer.



My first step was simple enough - paint on glass. Yes, beautiful, but not verbose.


With sunlight, this is a different world, everything is changing, and it is impossible to take your eyes off.


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If it were my will, I would place such glasses with colourful lines in the park. Sunlight would go through the colour, and it would open the structure on the paint stroke.


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But, unfortunately, this effect looks quite common in a studio setting.


I started thinking about the canvas material. In fact, it is a twisted yarn of flax or other woven materials. It seemed to me that this version of matter looks like an ordinary canvas increased under a microscope.


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The gap coincided with one of the broken glass. Therefore, I prepared more glass and fixed it with hot glue. As a result, a colourful composition with coloured glass.






I love this simple piece of art. In the sun, this is some kind of positive, the fibres seem to envelop you and create cosiness, and you want to put the coloured glass into a picture, supplement, change places, play. You are a child, and everything will be fine.


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Hundertwasser House At: https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/hundertwasser-house-vienna (Accessed 30.11.2020)


This work reminded me of Hundertwasser and his houses. He was a positive, grown child. He believed in the unity of what we create with nature. I associate this artwork with the same concept and refer to this artist.



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I tested some ideas with a mirror, but this material is so comprehensive that it would need separate research.



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