Research On The Development Prospect Of The Stained Glass In China

Stained Glass is made by small pieces of glass that is assembled in slots of materials such as lead, zinc and brass. It is high-class art glass production technique and its decorative patterns are often used in architecture decoration. It has a long history in western countries. In the early, people here use it in church as decoration. From then on, it was carried forward in modern England, France, America, Japan and Egypt. It can render specific environment atmosphere, so it is usually used as decoration in mural, doors, windows and dome. Stained Glass becomes more and more popular and its market is growing bigger and bigger. It caters to the urgent need of environmental art of consumers. However, its development in China is limited right now, such as, public cognition of stained glass is in a relatively low level, most of its pattern design is mediocre or just copycats of western church. As a totally foreign art form, only if stained glass combines with our Chinese culture and aesthetic orientation, it can develop well in China. I take some examples to show how we Chinese artiest try to localize stained glass art in China,maybe we can sum up some experience from their attempts. By summing up features of stained glass art in several typical countries, I conclude the necessity of combing stained glass art with Chinese culture naturally and some obstacles in this process. I try to give some advice and outlook of its development in China by introducing five different kinds of local designers’ practice of combining stained glass art with Chinese culture.