The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently running an exhibition entitled “Lives of the Gods – Divinity in Mayan Art“. The exhibit examines depictions of Mayan gods on various objects: ceramics, stone, jade and shell. Several ceramic pieces are highlighted in detail in online audio guides to the exhibit, providing interesting context to each object.Continue reading “Mayan Ceramics at the Met”
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Jean-Joseph Carriès – Artist Profile
Jean-Joseph Carriès was an influential French sculptor and ceramicist who thrived in the 1880s and early 1890s. In his relatively short life he created a collection of expressive stoneware sculpture and functional “Japonisme-inspired” pieces, work that was inspirational to subsequent Art Nouveau ceramicists. He is credited by some for lifting public perception of ceramics fromContinue reading “Jean-Joseph Carriès – Artist Profile”
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Nicholas Lees – Artist Profile
I enjoy Nicholas Lees’ work as much as I’ve enjoyed communicating with him about his art. He is an articulate man, as will be evident in this Q&A back-and-forth below. He is also a very thoughtful man, which shouldn’t be surprising given the time it takes to create each of his sculptural pieces. First, NicholasContinue reading “Nicholas Lees – Artist Profile”
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Sérusier, Bonnard & Vuillard
My earlier post about Paul Gauguin’s ceramics has received a large number of hits. Due to the interest, I’m providing some additional, if limited, information about several other French painters who knew or worked with Gauguin and also did ceramics: Paul Sérusier, Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. Paul Sérusier Paul Sérusier painted with Paul GauguinContinue reading “Sérusier, Bonnard & Vuillard”
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Patricia Volk – Artist Profile
Patricia Volk is a determined, courageous woman, inclined to push forward when confronted with adversity. I like that. Patricia was passionate about art as a young person, but family circumstances limited her ability to pursue the arts for almost 20 years while she worked in a non-arts career. But her determination came through and sheContinue reading “Patricia Volk – Artist Profile”
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Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
I found this interesting online exhibition entitled “Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramics from the TFAM.” (Yes, that’s Chinese ceramics at the Japanese museum.) The exhibit is broken down into four chapters with 125 photos of examples from the museum’s collection spread across the chapter headings. The four chapters are: (1) From the Dawn of Chinese PotteryContinue reading “Tokyo Fuji Art Museum”
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Talavera Poblana Presentation
On November 17, 2022, at 6:00 PM (ET), multimedia artist Cecile Chong will discuss her stop-motion animation video entitled “Conversations in Blue-and-White.” Ms. Chong’s video documents the origin and production of Talavera Poblana, or tin-glazed pottery produced in and around Puebla, Mexico. Ms. Chong will discuss how some elements of this pottery style that firstContinue reading “Talavera Poblana Presentation”
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Monika Patuszynska – Artist Profile
Monika Patuszynska is an absolutely fascinating Polish artist whose work involves a playfulness and exploration of both plaster moulds and porcelain clay. I was first attracted to some of her early work (2008-2009 “Nonformy” series) where she modified slipcast porcelain clay itself by injecting gas into it as it solidified within a plaster mould. IContinue reading “Monika Patuszynska – Artist Profile”
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Eglė Einikytė-Narkevičienė – Artist Profile
I put this article together while traveling in the deserts of Namibia in Southern Africa. Oddly, I found similarity between the anagama kiln fired work of Eglė, a Lithuanian artist, and the stark geology of Namibia. I have no reason to believe there is any direct connection. Eglė herself describes the origins and inspiration forContinue reading “Eglė Einikytė-Narkevičienė – Artist Profile”
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Museo Castromediano – Lecce, Italy
My wife and I recently wandered into the Museo Castromediano in Lecce, Italy (also known as Museo Sigismondo Castromediano after the founder, an aristocratic collector who donated a large part of the collection). The museum is outstanding – not only its collection of local ceramics dating across millennia, but also in the way the museumContinue reading “Museo Castromediano – Lecce, Italy”
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