Alice, You damn with faint praise. No, the fact remains that he has created some extraordinary glass. Again I ask that you study history and you will find that Dale has nothing on the marketing skills of Tiffany. Try not to let yourself be suckered by the P.T. Barnum effect and look at the work for what it is. I think you will find great beauty in many of the works that he has created over the years. HH
It's not that Chihuly's a bad glass artist, it's that his
> lasting contributions to the art are more based on marketing than on
> what he himself actually creates. He's a fine glassblower, but he's a
> fantastic marketeer. And it's his marketing, his contribution to making
> hot glass a legitimate art form in America, that has to a large extent
> made it possible for the rest of us to come along and discover glass.
> IOW, lots of people can can study with the best and lots of people can
> blow great glass; not a lot of people can make a Pilchuck.
>
> -AB