who is Chihuly copying?
More important than ripping off nature, Chihuly is ripping of a region. Chihuly takes many of the Murano ideals on shape and colors in the contours of the form. Anyone who collects glass could lecture on about Murano and the great affect it had on hundreds of American artists; glass blowers, painters, and sculpters alike. Why isn’t someone taking out a patent on Murano glass? Obviously, because it is so well known that it’s nearly a genre of art, just the same as Baroque, Expressionism, Pop Art. If Raphael had made attempts to copyright the idea of a vanishing point depicted in his piece, School of Athens, the entire art world would be wrecked save a few sweet pieces by Picasso in his non linear stint. Chihuly learned from someone else just like every other threatening agent in the art forum. In 1968 Chihuly visited Venice, the home of Murano glass, at 26 years old. To get there, he had written three hundred letters requesting any kind of internship to Murano. How can Chihuly sue a pro
