{"id":13046,"date":"2018-08-24T07:05:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/?p=13046"},"modified":"2020-06-15T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:59:51","slug":"picturedesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/picturedesign\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture Framing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When submitting works for framing, some artists and art buyers are unaware that glass is an important element of both protection and design.\u00a0It safeguards the artwork from environmental damage:\u00a0dust, dirt, moisture, fading and the destructive effects of ultraviolet light,\u00a0while also simply giving the work a finished appearance.<\/p>\n

There are two principal types of glass used for artworks: framing glass and museum glass. We asked Maksim Krasnitsky, an artist represented by the gallery and the director of a framing workshop, to tell us more about them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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What is the difference between standard framing glass and museum glass?<\/h3>\n
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1. Ordinary glass is perfectly smooth, contains no inclusions, and produces no distortions, yet it does create glare. In addition, it readily shows fingerprints and quite clearly reflects the surroundings, especially when dark tones predominate in the image. When ordinary glass is used in frames for photographs, a problem of perception arises due to glare from lighting fixtures appearing on the glass.<\/p>\n

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2. Museum glass does not glare thanks to a special treatment.\u00a0This\u00a0effect is achieved through magnetron\u00a0sputtering\u00a0of the surface, as a result of which it becomes rough and\u00a0acquires unique optical properties: a ray of light striking the glass is not reflected but scattered. At the same time, light transmission \u00a0increases \u00a0significantly (it becomes matte). Such glass\u00a0is often called \u201cinvisible,\u201d as one wants to touch it with one\u2019s hand to make sure whether it is there or not.<\/p>\n

Putting it into figures, museum glass has\u00a0light transmission\u00a0of more than 98%, light reflection \u2013 less than 1%.\u00a0Depending on the \u201clayers\u201d of magnetron sputtering, from 60 to 92% of ultraviolet light is blocked, thereby solving the crucial task of protecting the image from its \u00a0destructive effects. It is impossible to block more without a loss of the glass\u2019s optical characteristics.<\/p>\n

3. The average price of museum glass is 20 times higher than that of ordinary glass.<\/p>\n

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4. \u00a0Museum glass\u00a0is\u00a0\u00a0the ideal means of framing graphics, watercolors, photographs, as well as for use as ultra-transparent displays for three-dimensional works, archival documents, and valuable collector\u2019s items.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0Laminated anti-vandal museum glass is capable of retaining shards within the frame upon impact,\u00a0which allows one to speak of the highest degree of protection of the image from\u00a0damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Creative visionary, friend and partner of the gallery \u00a0and<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0owner of the framing workshop ROOM34<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When submitting works for framing, some artists and art buyers are unaware that glass is an important element of both protection and design.\u00a0It safeguards the artwork from environmental damage:\u00a0dust, dirt, moisture, fading and the destructive effects of ultraviolet light,\u00a0while also simply giving the work a finished appearance. There are two principal types of glass used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}