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Shanghai Museum of Glass

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When you come to the Shanghai Museum of Glass, you will definitely be attracted by the exquisite portrait photos of ancient glass pharaohs on the walls of the early Western glass exhibition area. This original head is a portrait of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep II, currently in the Corning Museum of Glass. By the 10th century BC, dragonfly eye glass beads were very popular. According to research, the dragonfly eye pattern is derived from the eyes of the gods in ancient Egypt, which has infinite divine power and is used to ward off evil spirits and protect the body,Glass product   .

The head of the pharaoh, collected by the Corning Museum of Glass in the United States, Shanghai Museum of Glass *Ancient Egypt Exhibition Cabinet* Picture

According to current archaeological evidence, glass first originated in the Mesopotamia around 2500 BC. Today, glass has appeared in human life for more than 4,000 years. Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest regions where the glass-making process emerged. The representative early glass products that appeared in the 16th century BC were glass beads. On the famous gold mask of Tutankhamun, the blue strips used to decorate the long beard and hair accessories are blue glass containing cobalt, which is the distinctive "Egyptian blue".
The ancient Egyptians decorated their afterlife with unique creations, hoping to achieve immortality in this way. In fact, they did achieve immortality to some extent. We still enjoy their rich cultural heritage.

The Shanghai Museum of Glass was completed and opened in 2011, and was selected as one of the three most not-to-be-missed museums in China by the website of CNN in the United States. Since its opening, the Shanghai Museum of Glass has continued to present splendid exhibitions to the public: from domestic and foreign academic glass art exhibitions, to ancient glass special exhibitions, to the KEEP IT GLASSY series of exhibitions, and since 2015, it has combined glass with contemporary art. The "annealing" series of exhibitions of art's cross-border integration... In the Shanghai Museum of Glass, glass art and design are transcending the barriers of time, space, language and culture, and sharing the wonderful appearance of various cross-types.

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Glass was one of the first man-made materials invented, appearing somewhere between bronze and iron. The emergence of this new material extends human's enjoyment of light, pursuit of life and development needs.

"Zhe/Angels are Waiting"

Children are naturally curious and should be guided in their growth education. He is like such a work, how do you protect it? Angels need protection.

This work gives good and upward hope. Accidents are unintentional mistakes for children. After the work is injured, it is protected and isolated. Audiences always want the freedom to access artworks, but museums have to design isolation. What exactly is the isolation belt isolating? Injury may be unintentional, but isolation protection must be made intentionally or unintentionally.

"Transparent Coca Leaf"

As its name suggests, it stretches its own shape organically. The forest color system with distinct seasons is endowed with a particularly natural color. It is an emerald-colored whole-body leaf with tan enlarged chlorophyll cells on it, green and brown, and the overlapping of life and death.

Stand out from the crowd in the exhibition hall, you can jump out at a glance. The design of shape and color makes it stand out. The lighting is beautiful. It is beautiful with or without light. Very exotic style, I think of the picture sense of "the desert is solitary, the long river is setting the sun".

It is a fatal grace. It is a battle between artistic imagination and scientific rigor. We abandon its beauty in order to understand it; the artist expresses its beauty, forgetting its mortal danger.

Transparency: He embodies the virus, allowing the things we hate to meet us in a new state, showing the beauty or the ordinary of the virus.

"scarecrow"

The scarecrow made of glass, like a wind chime, will make a jingling sound when the wind comes. The direction and texture of the glass constitute the reality of the scarecrow's tattered clothes, and the splicing and matching of colors are not deplorable. Cold and lonely. The scarecrow watching in the field also needs some warmth.

Looking at the development of human social life from the perspective of glass will bring us some very interesting ideas. Looking forward to seeing a different world and thinking perspective through glass and its innovative journey.

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