The Empowerment of Imagination

In this article, glass artists are themselves held up to the light. The artist's profession is (still) free and unprotected. Artists do not need to have received an academic education or to hold a degree. An artist may consider himself to be producing a work of art, but its quality as such remains to be decided and confirmed by authorities in that field. If real art is to be distinguished from the work of amateurs, the world of art needs experts who are qualified to appreciate real quality and who can determine what is valuable, what deserves to be revealed to the public and what should be preserved for posterity. As to whether their judgements will be vindicated, only time will tell. It is difficult, however, to bridge the yawning chasm separating the expert from the layman, illiterate as many artists are when it comes to the language of imagery.

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Angela Van der Burght Fenestra C.V Angela van der Burght is partner of Fenestra Ateliers, Industrial designer, art teacher andAuthor of articles and study plans for art education about art and glass. Art curator of seve-Ral expositions... Read more