| schema:description | "Born in Tokyo, Hisatoshi Iwata (1925–1994) learned the basics of designing and sketching from boyhood, because he was the son of a pioneering glass artist in Japan, Toshichi Iwata. After graduating from the Design Division of the Department of Crafts at today's Tokyo University of the Arts, he continued to study art theory and the scientific properties of glass, and then he became a glass artist. Having taken over his father’s work, Hisatoshi has primarily crafted free-blown glass works. He broke new ground with delicate yet splendid decorative works that use a variety of colored glass. The work pictured here uses thick, powerfully coiled white glass to express a swirling cloud....(more)" |
