On The Reasons Of The Decline Of The Traditional Glass Art

Glass is a spirit, a realm, a symbol of personality. "Pharmacist Crystal Tathagata by virtue of the willing", saying: "Let me next life, attain enlightenment, the body, such as glass, inside and outside the crystal of the net flawless offensive." In recent years, domestic and international art market of the glass artist once again sought after, given a signal at the same time it confirms the truth: the history of real value and artistic quality with the process of art forms, whether it is standing at the top of the tide or the tide of history has been submerged, its unique cultural value is always retained significant. Traditional glass artist and, like other Chinese traditional culture, has a unique history and the strong imprint of the national language feature, in the long history of the formation of a unique artistic language and aesthetic features of Chinese culture, not the missing part. Over the years, critics and researchers high marks for glass artist, its historical and artistic value, we need to continue digging. Throughout the whole of traditional glass artist development, we can clearly see that it's art development. Experienced the full development of Tang and Song Dynasties, reached its peak in the Qing period, the late Qing court with the decline of the manufacturing process, glass handicraft production has reduced, until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and glass arts and crafts also will declare the end of production. The cultural patterns of weakness, not only because the end of the end of an era, the deeper reason is that we need to be further explored.The article consists of four parts:Part I: introduces the context of traditional glass arts, including the glass of the title, concept, modeling analysis of the characteristics and historical development.Part II: By analyzing the different stages of development and changes in production processes to find the characteristics of its production, as a basis for explain the root causes of the decline of glass artist. Because the characteristics of the production process determines its function in unity, in order to find the reasons for the decline of the traditional glass artist.Part III: From a special historical and cultural context, found that traditional glass to slow down the phenomenon, further analysis of changes in social conditions decline of traditional glass art of the direct driving force, to clarify the reasons for the decline of another dominant factor.Part IV: The reasons for the decline of the previous two chapters, the analysis leads to the development of a new direction on the glass art of thinking.Combining the characteristics of glass itself, the quality of modern culture under the mining process language form. The above sections of the analysis and demonstration of that: traditional glass artist is due to the limitations of its own technological characteristics and social and cultural ideology of the double reason to decline. However, this phenomenon is only temporary, the development of art glass will not be interrupted, mature material in the community, it will improve the quality of modern culture to find a more perfect way to innovation itself.