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We believe in art because art is related to people. Whether it is a thought or an emotion, it ultimately is an individual's expression of the universe and life. Is the creation of glass art? Can it be art? There is no need to discuss. Because, just as we discuss whether a painting is art, we do not discuss whether oil painting is art. For us, we only care whether glass art is the art of people, whether it is a person's reflection on the world? Otherwise, all presentations of glass creation are just indulgences in technique. The history of human glass is very long, but creations involving personal life feelings are very few. Emile Gallé is an important marker; Gallé's religious sentiments and humanistic literacy give his life's development of glass techniques a soul. Looking at all the signed works of Gallé's life, and even the so-called Gallé glass still issued in his name after his death, examining the components of Emile Gallé's personal life feelings is the artistic readability of the work.
The range of glass techniques Gallé was involved in includes blowing, encasing, thermoforming, glazing, copper wheel engraving, and acid etching. The complexity and diversity of the techniques he used are vast. In the known knowledge of glass creation techniques, Gallé was proficient in almost all of them. This lifelong Puritan, who had an immense passion for insects, plants, and gardening, saw the beauty of plant flowers as the radiance of God. He devoted himself to glass creation to highlight the exquisiteness of a lily, a rose, or even a dragonfly. He pursued any experiments in shape and color wholeheartedly because it was a praise and ode to God's created world.
In the 19th century, Gallé dedicated his life to creating the most touching flowers in the history of glass, which also became the aspiration deep in Loretta Yang's heart. She hoped to make Gallé's flowers more free and three-dimensional in the continuation of time and space, achieving infinite possibilities in shape and color. A hundred years later, artist Loretta Yang started with lost-wax casting, went through countless failures and experiments, and finally succeeded in combining the lost-wax casting technique with blowing craftsmanship, precisely mastering the balance of color and shape, creating her own glass flowers.