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Khalid
Assakr His Technique |
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| Creating glass art from
scratch Figurative Murrine are very difficult glass work even when the best of material, set ups, and cold work instruments are available. Very few Artists, contemporary or in the history of glass managed mastering this technique. Besides that, what distinguishes Khalid's Work is that he did it all on his own using improvised set ups and instruments. In his remote city of north eastern Egypt, he had access to little teaching, help and accessibility to instrumentation He studied it all on his own, in books and through his frequent visits to the Cairo Museum where superb examples of Murrine Work from the Pharaoh eras are displayed Khalid started started experimenting by using Arabic and English letters and words By trial and error he progressed first to experimenting with his own drawings, then culminating in his current figurative work It is based on photos of contemporary or historic personalities First, Khalid studies the photo over few days, and predicts the difficulties ahead Curves are the most challenging parts of a portrait to translate in Murrine The Cold Phase then will take 20 to 30 painstaking days This is followed by the lampworked Hot Phase of the creation of a murrine This results in the rod / Punti from which the Murrine are cut then polished, another tedious phase, particularly if the proper instruments are not available |
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| Cold phase
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Below is Khalid doing the cold work phase on his piece QUEEN VICTORIA Click below on the left and right images to enlarge the cold work phase of 2 of Khalid's Murrine: Marilyn Monroe King Tutankhamen |
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| In the Cold
Phase glass filaments of various colors are set against the
portrait They are then bundled together to prepare for the Hot Phase |
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Hot Phase of the Murrine Work
This is
the more difficult and challenging part of the Murrine work. Click on the images below to enlarge them and to get more information on the pieces to the Right and Left Comparing those images to the ones above give a clear idea of the difference between the two main phases of Murrine Work |
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