MelchiorBeltzhoover commissioned Louis Tiffany to make this large window ( 11’ x 10’) for his music room at Rochroane Castle, a Gothic Revival mansion built in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York.
I’m sharing this snap from the museum I visited a few months back in case anyone else is having a dull day and needs a bit of color as a pick-me-up.
I NEED you guys to see this right now. This is my favorite sculpture/work of physical art and it’s a crime that more people don’t know about it.
Carroña (English, Carrion)
This thing was absolutely GORGEOUS in person and it's so fgkfgindf radical because look at it!!!! The bloody disemboweled corpse of beauty!!! Holy shit!! I adore this sosossoo much and I love intentional destruction of art and aaaaaaaa
This is a work done by Spanish artist Javier Pérez in 2011, and it's currently being held in the Corning Museum of Glass (NY). CMoG's artwork page (go read it, it has more info on Pérez's other creations!) describes the piece:
"This sculpture consists of an elaborate chandelier whose many parts were blown and tooled of transparent blood-red glass, assembled and hung, then intentionally dropped. A flock of taxidermied crows perches on the fallen carcass, and shards dangle from their mouths. The installation is meant to evoke opportunistic birds gobbling carrion by the side of the road, a metaphor for the gradual disappearance of Murano’s traditional glass industry."
Pérez also has it listed on his personal website. (Many of his works may be considered disturbing for some, so if you see a thumbnail you don't like in his portfolio, don't click <3)
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I went to the Corning Museum of Glass today. I visited my favorite pieces, set off an alarm while taking a photo, and did a little research for my Camp novel.
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I have probably written about The Corning Museum of Glass before. Probably in a very similar manner. So this may be a repetitive post for some who have seen other posts. But, I feel like this is something I want to write about even if repeatedly because it is important to me to write about other forms of art and local places I can engage with art. And I love to talk about how I engage with art,…