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Ornamentglas B - Ansicht 1
Taken on 21 July 2021, 09:47:28
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
The photo shows a detail of a window, ca. 8.5 × 5.7 cm (3.35 × 2.23 inch). The window pane is made from a simple kind of so-called decorative glass (a.k.a. patterned glass, textured or obscure glass), produced about 2013; the vertical stripes in the photo are produced by the fluted structure of the glass. The decorative glass acts as a diffuser. The colours you see in the photo are actually an image of the outside world, but heavily diffused or “abstracted” by the decorative glass; the red comes from the roof of a house, the green from the plants in the garden. Because the glass works as a diffuser, everything in the photo consists of smaller and larger gradations. IMHO it’s amazing that something as simple as a fluted window pane, if you only look closely enough, shows these complex gradients and creates an abstract image.
