The Kindness of the Sky in a City

The Kindness of the Sky in a City

 
Print
 
Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
The Kindness of the Sky in a City
Series: 
The Kindness of the Sky in a City
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
Japan
Date: 
1995
Technique
AAT
tooling
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 33 cm, W: 18.2 cm, Diam (base): 15.7 cm
Accession Number: 
96.6.3
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Glass: light red-amethyst, colorless; enamels: opaque black and white, light blue-green, yellow, pink; top: mold-blown; mid-section: blown, tooled; base: blown in the graal technique (with internal brushed enameling); all three sections ground and polished, assembled. Sculpture with top section of colorless in the shape of an irregular teardrop-shaped hollow "cloud" with bumpy wide end and curled up point, top section rests horizontally and is joined at mid-point to narrow, vertical, double-lobed bubble-stem, connected in turn with hollow, elongated hemispherical base (resting on wide open end), top (narrow end) is ground and polished flat where it joins bubble-stem, base is rendered opaque by internal enamel decoration consisting of three stylized loosely-brushed white-ish human torsos extending from base, arms are raised above upturned heads, pink linear smiles, directly above each pointed nose three painted droplets extend vertically towards top, interspersed with figures and also extending from the base are three vertical, rectangular buildings with light blue-green and white coloration and staggered small black rectangular "windows"; overall traces of pastel colors: overall scattered bubbles, fire-polished base rim; unsigned.
Provenance
Hayazaki, Shiho ((b. 1975)), Source
1996-06-26
Glass Art Society International Student Exhibition
Venue(s)
Massachusetts College of Art 1996-06-06 through 1996-06-09

What is AAT?

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More