HUMANITIES Week 25 NAME:_______________________________



HUMANITIES Week 25 NAME:_______________________________

Louis Comfort Tiffany: River of Life, c. 1923- 1924 DATE:________________________________

1. Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of the founder of the _________________________________store that still bears

the family name, took no interest in his father’s business.

2. Tiffany trained as a painter in Paris, and upon returning to New York decided to channel his talents into the

decorative arts. He became interested in ____________________from about 1875 and worked at several

glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with other artists to form Louis Comfort

Tiffany and Associated American Artists. Tiffany's leadership and talent, as well as by his father's money and

connections, led this business to thrive. “I believe there is more in it than in painting pictures,” he declared.

3. Tiffany worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in _________________________________.

He is the American artist most associated with the ______________________ and _______________movements.

4.Art Nouveau is characterized by organic, especially __________________________motifs, as well as highly

stylized, flowing curvilinear forms. It is an approach to design according to which artists should work on

everything from architecture to furniture, making art part of everyday life .

5. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the ________________________.

6. By the 1890s, Tiffany was exploring the possibilities of __________glass, a medium that had remained virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages. In the late nineteenth century, it was experiencing a_________________, owing to the large number of churches under construction in prospering American cities.

7. Tiffany used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked.

When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass.

Tiffany used _______________ glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass.

This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass that had been the

dominant method of creating stained glass for hundred of years in Europe.

8. In 1893, his company also introduced the term ________________ in conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 _______________ in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons .

9. Favrile glass is a type of __________________________ art glass designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

10. Tiffany designed: Stained glass windows, Lamps, Glass mosaics, Blown glass, Ceramics, Jewelry, Enamels, Metalwork.

11. Gradually, stained glass made its way into _______________settings, with biblical subjects giving way to naturalistic motifs and woodland themes. These luminous windows worked like ______________paintings to introduce a sense of natural beauty into an urban home. Their dense designs had the added advantage of blocking views of ________________streets and back alleys that an _______________window might reveal.

12. Autumn Landscape was commissioned by real estate magnate Loren Delbert Towle for his Gothic Revival mansion in Boston. The estate's construction began in 1920 as a 35-room, with formal gardens, terraces, tennis courts, and garage. Towle died in 1924 before the mansion was completed.

13. The window was meant to light the ________________of a grand ________________, and, by presenting a landscape view that receded into the distance, it would offer the illusion of extending a necessarily confined space.

14. In keeping with the American landscape tradition, the theme of Autumn Landscape—The River of Life also invites a ___________________________interpretation. Tiffany generally reserved the traditional subject, in which a mountain stream flows through the rocks and cascades into a placid foreground pool, for __________ windows in churches and mausoleums; Here, the season enhances the symbolism of a __________________ winding to a close, with the sun sinking low on a late autumn afternoon.

15. Tiffany’s ambition was to use glass to create the effect of oil or watercolor painting, without resorting to the application of enameled decoration.___________________________________________________________

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16. He found countless ways to give his art a practical purpose, designing everything from _______________to _________________________; In any medium, Tiffany said, his primary consideration had always been simply “the pursuit of beauty.”

QUIZ:

1. Stained-glass windows are commonly seen in churches, but this window was created for a stairwell in a man’s private home. Why would someone rather have a stained-glass window in a house than clear glass?

2. How would this landscape make the space of a small stairwell feel larger?

3. Because the man who commissioned this window died before it was installed, it seemed like a memorial for him. Why are autumn scenes and sunsets often featured in memorials to the dead? Describe the mood of this scene.

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