Cold glass art refers to glass art processed at room temperature, if it needs to be heated in a kiln, the temperature is not higher than 593 degrees Celsius. Such as sandblasted carved glass, chemical etching glass, color Mosaic glass, color printing glass, surface painting and glazed glass, etc., are proportional. The development of cold glass art in our country started from sandblasting engraving and grinding, which has a development history of several decades. Sandblast engraving is mainly used for the art of plate glass reprocessing, products are mostly used in furniture, doors and Windows, mirrors, screens, partitions and so on. Grinding mainly uses motor driven grinding wheel, hand-held glass grinding to carve out a variety of flowers, birds, fish and insects patterns, mainly used for glassware, daily glass decoration.
Since the 1990s, the domestic and gradually derived other decorative techniques of art glass varieties, such as vertical line painted glass, color printing glass, frosted glass and so on.
After 2003, more decorative glass varieties were introduced to the market, forming a rapid development of the art deco glass industry from south to north. Chinese people have a strong creativity and superhuman imitation, so sandblasting, chemical etching, grinding, color printing based on a variety of cold glass decoration products soon emerged, a variety of art glass is called a variety of. The integration of various processes has become a hot spot in recent years. Looking at the world's glass art works, most of them are the synthesis of a variety of techniques. The application of comprehensive skills can reflect the artist's perfect artistic design and improve the ornamental value of glass artworks. From a variety of exhibitions, decorative art glass from the product design, processing technology, enterprise scale, have tended to mature, has formed a huge industry in the country, and has international competitiveness, with encouraging market prospects.
Hot glass art came into being
Hot glass art has always been the glass art advocated internationally, has hundreds of years of development history, and is also recognized by artists and art colleges. The so-called hot glass art refers to glass artworks processed at a high temperature above 593 degrees Celsius, such as kiln-cast glass (dewaxed casting glass), blown glass, thermoplastic glass (lamp glass), etc. Their process is to heat the glass (glass rod, glass tube, glass powder, glass block) until softened and liquid after remolding. After artistic innovation, coloring, annealing and other procedures, it forms a new solid form of glass. Works made with this process are generally uniform in shape and color and cannot be copied, just like some ceramic artworks.
China's hot glass art has always been used only for the production of factory glassware, daily glass, production capacity and output in the world can be called a glass country, export volume is large, but the foreign business is not our glass plastic art, but the low price and inherent product use function. Therefore, China is not so much a big exporter of glass products as an exporter of cheap labor at the cost of a serious waste of resources and deadly environmental pollution. Pure artistic glass art is the strength of European and American countries, and has hundreds of years of development history, such as Czech glass art in the Chinese market can be sold for thousands of yuan or even tens of thousands of yuan, while the Chinese production of glass products of the same size only sold for tens of yuan. The huge contrast shows that China's pure art glass products are still far behind the Western developed countries, and these are the artworks we call hot glass. It is gratifying that in recent years, hot glass art has quietly risen in China.
Art deco glass is valued for its decorative function, so its primary function is decorative. However, in the past, glass manufacturers only paid attention to decoration and ignored functional development. In recent years, various manufacturers have made efforts in the use of art glass. Some companies' product targets are home improvement, so they have developed TV background walls, door glass and window glass, which are very clear in purpose.
"The high-tech of the product is not as good as the good function of the product", which is the true sense of art deco glass. Many enterprises have changed the business philosophy of vague product positioning in previous years, and have devoted themselves to developing relief decorative glass paintings with high-tech content and can be shaped and produced. These glass products have aroused people's desire to use from different angles, and at the same time, people realize that art glass can play a beautifying role and increase the artistic atmosphere of the environment while meeting the function of use.
China's art deco glass market has a bright future and many business opportunities. First, compared with foreign countries, although our processing technology is still behind European and American countries for decades, decorative glass still has a huge market in foreign countries, and has greater potential in China; Second, China's national economy is in a period of rapid development, people's living conditions and living environment need to undergo revolutionary changes, glass as a germplasm hard, transparent, pollution-free building materials, is other materials can not be replaced. Because of the lack of independent products, some enterprises have not yet put their minds to the research and development of art glass processing technology and the mining of glass potential functions, simply by rushing to follow the trend, sooner or later will be eliminated by the market.
