NOVOS CONHECIMENTOS E NOVAS LINGUAGENS: O PAPEL DO VIDRO ENQUANTO MATERIAL ARTISTICO COMTEMPORÂNEO

Abstract

Today glass art presents itself as acontemporary and innovative search for a componentconnected with research and experimentation. The art piecesmade of glass are one of many forms of art communicationand are in expansion today. The research aims to focus glassas an artistic material with aesthetics and artisticapplications, its main artists and their masterpieces. A strictlink between arts and science is established, a discovery andthe use of new skills, techniques and materials searching foran interdisciplinary relationship. Nowadays artscommunicate with this ancestral material and it became partof the new technologies and the new era of information,rediscovering it in a new form of expression. In short, with abridge between lab and atelier, glass and its secrets opennew bounderies to aesthetic creativity.Index Terms - contemporary glass art, glass artists,luminescent glass.