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bjbj What you are looking at is a case of glass all by one artist, the French artist
Maurice Marinot, who began his career as a painter, and you can see in the right-hand
side of the case, one of his paintings. Marinot was associated with a circle of painters in
Paris called the Fauves , or the Beasts , and these included people such as Henri Matisse
and Andre Derain. So he was associated with a very well known group of painters in France,
and pursued this career until one day in 1911 he was visiting friends at their glass factory
outside of Paris, and he discovered glass. From then on he pretty much abandoned painting
in favor of investigating what he could do with glass. On the first shelf you see some
of Marinot s blown and enameled pieces, and below that some of his later work which is
blown, enameled, and acid-etched and cut. In the blown and enameled glass, you can see
the relationship between Maurice Marinot s interest in glass and his interest in painting.
As he got more into the material, he began to explore different qualities of it: the
heaviness of the material, the bubbles in the glass, the way glass could be made into
water or ice or fire. He was very much inspired by elements of the natural world. You can
see some of his process on the video to your right. Marinot was one of the first artists
who really, literally did everything himself. He was not a designer who worked with a factory
worker in the making of his objects; they were not made by machine. Marinot designed
and made each of these objects by hand, and this is one of the reasons we feel he is such
an important artist, and he is one of the very first of what we call studio glass artists.
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