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From: Jon Callan <JCa1597095@aol.com>
List Editor: Betty MacDowell <macdowe3@MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Marc Chagall in Glass
Author's Subject: Marc Chagall in Glass
Date Written: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:47:29 EST
Date Posted: Sat, 20 Nov 2009 12:47:16 -0500

Let's take this one stage further.
If you consider the German studio method, designers some of whom also work
as artists, get on and do their bit, without the constraining knowledge
of how a piece of glass might cut or behave, while the studios sort out the
practicalities of actually making the windows, this results in very
graphic designs, which if you were to attempt to produce as a
designer by first of all laying down rules of production, would look
absolutely awful.

Anyway, as for rules their good thing is that they should be and are
broken, especially by the adventurous who wish to push the dynamics
of their chosen medium.

jon
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